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Exit Wayland without shutting down?
Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2023 9:37 am
by redquine
I'm running Vanilla Dpup 10.0.154 Wayland on an HP Stream 11 with kernel 6.1.12, booting from a USB stick.
I've been extremely impressed with it so far; everything "just works" - even the (usually tricky) Broadcom wireless connection. However, Firefox occasionally freezes when playing a video, which may well be related to the capabilities of the laptop (only 2GB RAM). I can live with that. 
My issue that I can't exit to the command prompt. I tried the usual Ctrl+Alt+Backspace but it goes to a blank screen with a cursor. The only way to escape that is to press the power button briefly, which elicits a bark then shutdown. I then tried Ctrl+Alt+F2 but with the same result.
I only want to kill the session and log in again. Could you let me know how to do this, please?
Re: Exit Wayland without shutting down?
Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2023 11:49 am
by dimkr
The usual ways of exiting X should work just fine: they have all the adaptations needed to kill the Wayland compositor. Does wmexit work when you run it in the terminal? If it works, the graphical ways to exit X (via the JWM menu, etc') should work as well.
Re: Exit Wayland without shutting down?
Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2023 11:26 pm
by redquine
Thanks @dimkr. The only thing is, when Firefox freezes, everything freezes and I can't even access the terminal.
I've tried again while Firefox isn't running and can confirm that Ctrl+Alt+F2 does normally work. I suspect I was just being impatient; it seemed to be taking a long time to go from a blank screen to the command prompt so I assumed it wasn't working properly. I'll try leaving it for a couple of minutes longer next time and see what happens.