While trying to diagnose problems as a part of another thread in this list, I discovered that wayland is not functional on my workstation. I'm currently logged in to gnome using the top "GNOME" entry in the menu of desktops that is displayed in the upper right corner of the monitor during login. Results of tests suggested in that other thread:
bash.12[~]: env | grep -i wayland bash.13[~]: ps -ef | grep -i wayland weilian+ 128352 2160 0 11:15 pts/0 00:00:00 grep --color=auto -i wayland bash.14[~]: ps -ef | grep -i earlyoom weilian+ 128358 2160 0 11:15 pts/0 00:00:00 grep --color=auto -i earlyoom bash.15[~]:
Also, I tried logging in to plasma with wayland. After entering my credentials, the screens went black. After 2 minutes, I hit the hard reset and rebooted.
Through 8 years of weekly patches and semi-annual upgrades, I've never done anything to block or disable wayland. Shouldn't it have been automatically installed somewhere in those 8 years?
How do I get wayland properly working on my workstation?