Xorg will be the default in 18.04 LTS

jamiebennett · March 9, 2018, 4:08pm

Wayland is a protocol, Unity is a desktop environment. Apples and oranges.

madsrh · March 9, 2018, 6:53pm

Perhaps even more like oranges and a fruit basket, but what’s even more fascinating to me, is that this thread is still alive 42 days later.

wattana · March 13, 2018, 6:39am

Is that mean i can have the nvidia driver on my PC?
P.S. I use Ubuntu 17.10 and idk if the next release will be coming soon

vanvugt · March 13, 2018, 6:50am

Yes you can always use the nvidia driver. This discussion doesn’t change that (much).

qassisolp · April 26, 2018, 3:14am

I’m so very (VERY) happy Ubuntu 18.04 LTS uses Gnome 3.x. Unity gone is ‘answered prayers’! Thanks, Team Ubuntu!

frederik-f · April 27, 2018, 9:43pm

@vanvugt
Hm, I upgraded from the 18.04 daily iso everyday until release
How can I get rid of the wayland session(s) completely?
I use our communitheme session and the ubuntu session parallel. If I remove the wayland session will it affect the names of the communitheme session on xorg?

vanvugt · April 30, 2018, 1:27am

That’s an unusual request. But I think you can disable/hide the Wayland option by editing /etc/gdm3/custom.conf and uncommenting:

#WaylandEnable=false

didrocks · April 30, 2018, 9:58am

Once you do what @vanvugt told you, it will only impact Wayland session, not any other session (like communitheme session on xorg).

frederik-f · April 30, 2018, 10:09am

Alright thanks for the info. It’s no biggie it’s just that I don’t use wayland at all since some programs I use don’t work with wayland and I can’t reset the gnome session with it and I need that alt+f2-> r for the communitheme shell theme development

didrocks · April 30, 2018, 10:11am

Tip: only reload the theme via alt+F2 → rt (works on both)

frederik-f · April 30, 2018, 10:16am

Oh nice! Ty for the info.

ubuntu-michaelcole · May 15, 2018, 7:39pm

DisplayLink still hasn’t released a driver compatible with 18.04. Probably because supporting Ubuntu is a HUGE WASTE OF THEIR TIME. I upgraded to 18.04 from Ubuntu GNOME and regret it. Huge waste of time and money ($200 docking station, 2x $200 monitors, 1x $70 stand). This is why there will never be a “Year of the Linux Desktop”.

mmartinsthiago · August 6, 2018, 1:14pm

Good morning, everyone!
I don’t know if this is where I should try to solve my problem, but maybe I can get some orientation.
I’ve bought a Dell Inspiron 15 7000 and it came with Windows 10, but I want to try the Ubuntu 18.04 and everytime that I tried to install it, the PC says that the ISO has 2 corrupted files, but I’ve already tried with 3 difierent ISO’s sources.
Can someone help me get off Windows?

Anyway, thanks!

flocculant · August 6, 2018, 7:04pm

Check out for places to go for help - https://community.ubuntu.com/t/finding-help/712

mmartinsthiago · August 7, 2018, 11:11am

Thanks, flocculant!
I’ll try there, then!

michaeljbehan · March 10, 2020, 1:33am

I have read the whitepaper for Ubuntu Core and it boasts Snap as being a secure solution. However, I also see that X11 is the wrench in the security gears since its architecture design is insecure, which devalues Snap’s intention in the information security realm. This is why I was looking into Mir / Wayland which appeared to promise more security over X11/Xorg.

Is there more I can read about this?

ogra · March 10, 2020, 10:53am

Try https://forum.snapcraft.io for more Ubuntu Core questions …

in general you need mir-kiosk on Ubuntu Core to run anything graphical. mir-kiosk acts as a wayland compositor, provides a wayland socket (and snap interface) and runs fully confined … inside that confined space you can then run X11 apps on top of XWayland