{"id":418,"date":"2025-07-14T15:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T21:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/?p=418"},"modified":"2025-07-15T07:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T13:19:10","slug":"stop-wayland-from-being-used","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/14\/stop-wayland-from-being-used\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop Wayland from being used"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yeah, I heard, Wayland is the future, but for remote access to your desktop, screenshot utilities and more, Wayland just sucks. I prefer to use Xorg for now and don&#8217;t care what the general consensus is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want to know how to stop Wayland from being used on your machine (If using the Gnome display manager gdm3) and to force Xorg only, just uncomment the line, &#8220;<strong>#WaylandEnable=false<\/strong>&#8221; in the <strong>\/etc\/gdm3\/custom.conf<\/strong> file. Reboot and enjoy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"721\" height=\"556\" src=\"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/DisableWayland.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/DisableWayland.jpg 721w, https:\/\/tekweis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/DisableWayland-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tekweis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/DisableWayland-660x509.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 721px) 100vw, 721px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, I heard, Wayland is the future, but for remote access to your desktop, screenshot utilities and more, Wayland just sucks. I prefer to use Xorg for now and don&#8217;t care what the general consensus is. If you want to know how to stop Wayland from being used on your machine (If using the Gnome\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/14\/stop-wayland-from-being-used\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":424,"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions\/424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekweis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}