Wayland at the beginning [Solved]

[periplo]

How do I get MX Linux to start with Wayland by default?

[dolphin_oracle]

1. use KDE with sddm login manager.
2. choose wayland session in the session chooser
3. it should remember last choice.

[periplo]

thank you

[periplo]

I'm running Mx Linux with KDE Plasma and SDDM. I've restarted the session with Wayland and everything is fine. However, when I restart the PC, it starts again with x11, without keeping Wayland.

[dr-kart]

https://wiki.debian.org/SDDM
(as an option) you could edit system-wide configuration file /etc/sddm.conf

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[Autologin]
Relogin=false
Session=plasmawayland.desktop
User=your_user_name
...

[periplo]

Thanks, I've found the solution. It's simpler than editing files. It's all in the KDE configuration, in the startup and shutdown options / login screen / behavior. There we select whether we want to start with x11 or Wayland. We reboot and that's it.

[Eadwine Rose]

Great you found it. Please click the checkmark in the top right set of buttons of the post that holds the solution to mark the topic solved, thanks :)

[AK-47]

Any particular reason you want Wayland?
Assuming you are running MX 23 or earlier, I would strongly advise caution. Wayland in those KDE versions is still patchy and considered experimental, and since those versions are no longer supported by upstream, you are very unlikely to get support for bugs or issues you encounter. Probably best to wait until Plasma 6.x which treats Wayland as a first-class citizen, to the point of enabling it by default.

[periplo]

I have a PC with KDE Neon Plasma 6.4.3 and Wayland is already mature, it's the future. And on my notebook I use MX Linux KDE 23.6.1 and I haven't noticed any problems with Wayland. Wayland is the immediate future, that's why I'm interested. Until a while ago, I used Debian and Kubuntu with X11, but I think Wayland is mature enough to start adopting it. Debian 13 will be released any moment and surely, from what I've read, they will update KDE Plasma to version 6.3, that's another reason why I'm interested in using Wayland. Ubuntu will also implement it as the only graphical manager, it will no longer use x11. So... why not use Wayland? Something similar happened when systemd appeared, and it turns out that it ended up imposing itself. Wayland is the future, why resist it? Unless you explain to me why not use it?

[AK-47]

Just because "it's the future" doesn't mean it's ready. If you want to play around with it and tinker than fine, knock yourself out, but my point is that KDE 5.27 (in Debian 12 and MX 23) has relatively buggy Wayland code compared to Plasma 6.4.3 in your KDE Neon.
I'm not saying don't do it at all, but don't expect any official support for it. As you say, Debian will update their Plasma (6.3.5 specifically at the moment), and its Wayland session is vastly improved compared to 5.27, to the point where I suspect it will be the default. You are better off waiting until then if you can.
I was curious as to why you would want to switch to Wayland so early on, sometimes there are valid reasons to so (for instance, on my machine Wayland session performs significantly better than X11).

Long story short, go ahead if you like, but with Plasma 5.27 do not expect any official support if things go wrong.