[Nix-dev] Gnome 3.22 hit master

[zimbatm]

If we believe that Wayland is the future it makes sense to me to exercise
the new stack on a small thing like GDM. If Wayland is the default backend
it's also bound to be better tested by upstream.

On Thu, 27 Oct 2016, 00:37 Alexander Ried, <groxxda at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2016-10-26 22:01 GMT+02:00 Jascha Geerds <jascha at jgeerds.name>:
>
> But you can still select a legacy (X server based) Gnome session inside
> GDM, right?
>
> The decision which type of user session (x or wayland) will be started is
> based on the path of the .desktop file that's requested: If the parent
> folder is called wayland-sessions, gdm starts a wayland user session.
> Otherwise a x user session.
>
> Our xserver module generates these files as
> /nix/store/<hash>-desktops/<name>.desktop, so it should always start a x
> user session.
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