no wayland

Having run Ubuntu 22.04 LTS for a week now, I tracked a lot of the “misbehavior” down to the Wayland display server protocol. Totem never quite loaded correctly, if it even ran, while seemingly innocuous tasks like dropping a file on Audacious also proved troublesome. So until Ubuntu figures out Wayland’s inadequacies, I’m back to using good ol’ Xorg.

When you log in to Ubuntu, there’s a gear in the bottom right screen to choose which display server you want to use. But to make it a little more foolproof, simply edit Wayland out of existence:

sudo nano /etc/gdm3/custom.conf

#Uncomment the line below to force the login screen to use Xorg
WaylandEnable=false

You can always check which display you are using with:
echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE
x11

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