Gnome defaulting to X11 on boot

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Have a look at this and this.

I had to add

MODULES=(i915)

to my /etc/mkinitcpio.conf since I am on Intel graphics which enables early KMS. After regenerating initramfs and reboot the three options (‘GNOME’, ‘GNOME classic’ and ‘GNOME on Xorg’) are there in GDM, and GNOME session is on Wayland.

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