How to swich back to Xsever

[steve7233]

Star Trek Online stopped working, and nothing I try fixes it. The Cryptic launcher starts to load, and then the entire system freezes, requiring a reboot to unfreeze it. I want to see if the Cryptic launcher might be having an issue with Wayland. How do I switch back to the X server?

[Snowhog]

You should just have to login using Xserver. On the SDDM Login Screen, in the lower left corner, click on Plasma (Wayland) and click on Plasma (X11).

[steve7233]

I was going to ask how to make that permeate, but then I thought maybe the settings GUI would have a way, and I was right. I also discovered I was right about the Cryptic Launcher not working with Wayland. An internet Google search told me that those devs at NVIDIA don't allow the Ubuntu devs to make a hook into the GPU driver to give Wayland what it needs. Both Intel and AMD do. I got STO working again by switching the login to X instead of Wayland. Next time I have the money to spare I will get a AMD GPU. I hope Kubuntu keeps the option to switch between Wayland and X for a few more years.

[claydoh]

I was going to ask how to make that permeate

Your last login session choice is remembered - there is nothing need to make it permanent. Once you have selected and logged in to an xorg session, it will become the default, until it is changed.

[steve7233]

Now log out and reset are borked! If I try either one of them I get a blank screen and have to use my computers reset button. I tried recovery mode and fix broken packages and it downloaded several things but it is still borked. I tried booting the previous kernel but it is still borked. How do I fix this? I suspect SDDM or whatever is bad.