GDM won’t log into a Wayland session on Debian with NVIDIA? Here’s the Fix

Are you unable to log into wayland on debian in GDM? GDM doesn’t even give you the option?

Turns out that GDM silently disables wayland if it detects the nvidia driver is installed.

The solution is to override the upstream udev rule that prevents wayland starting:

# ln -s /dev/null /etc/udev/rules.d/61-gdm.rules
# reboot

“gnome” should be an option now when logging in from gdm (click the cog icon).

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