Greetings. As far as I understand, endeavoros should support switching sessions from Wayland to x11 and back. As far as I understand, both of these features should be available after installing the distribution. Only Wayland exists without x11, although the logs show that all the necessary x11 packages are installed.
pacman -Qs xorg-server local/xorg-server 21.1.20-1(xorg)
Xorg X server local/xorg-server-common 21.1.20-1(xorg)
Xorg server common files local/xorg-xwayland 24.1.9-1(xorg)
run X clients under wayland
2. pacman -Qs xorg-xinit local/xorg-xinit 1.4.4-1 X.Org initialisation program
3. pacman -Qs xorg-apps local/xorg-setxkbmap 1.3.4-2(xorg-apps xorg)
Set the keyboard using the X Keyboard Extension local/xorg-xauth 1.1.4-1(xorg-apps xorg) X.Org authorization settings program local/xorg-xdpyinfo 1.4.0-1(xorg-apps xorg)
Display information utility for X local/xorg-xinput 1.6.4-2(xorg-apps xorg)
Small commandline tool to configure devices local/xorg-xkbcomp 1.4.7-1(xorg-apps xorg)
X Keyboard description compiler local/xorg-xkill 1.0.6-2(xorg-apps xorg)
Kill a client by its X resource local/xorg-xmodmap 1.0.11-2(xorg-apps xorg)
Utility for modifying keymaps and button mappings local/xorg-xprop 1.2.8-1(xorg-apps xorg)
Property displayer for X local/xorg-xrandr 1.5.3-1(xorg-apps xorg)
Primitive command line interface to RandR extension local/xorg-xrdb 1.2.2-2(xorg-apps xorg)
X server resource database utility local/xorg-xset 1.2.5-2(xorg-apps xorg)
User preference utility for X
4. The x11 session file in ls /usr/share/xsessions/ also does not exist.
Secondary question: can I switch sessions on the start screen using the keyboard shortcut ctrl + alt + f2 (f1, f3)?
The main question is: what needs to be done to enable the ability to switch sessions?
As far as I know, kwin-x11 is a window manager and it definitely won’t help in creating a session file, and it’s also not required for the X11 session selection option to appear in the login manager.
If I’m wrong about something, you can describe it in more detail, as is appropriate for the “newbie” category.
I’m embarrassed to admit, but I don’t watch them at all, and I don’t know where to watch the announcements. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. And judging by the publication date of the news in your previous post (2025-06-20), it’s already more than three months old, and I installed the distro in November =)
Yep. I have an alias for updating which includes yay -pw. Unseen Arch news is shown before any update is attempted. If no new news is detected, the update cintinues as it should.
alias up='yay -Pw && yay -Syyu && flatpak update && flatpak uninstall --unused'
Thanks for the reply. I’m currently using pomac, not flatpack. On my previous system (Ubuntu), I had flatpack, and there were issues with some applications. But even now, using pomac on Arch, I’m seeing some issues after updates. Perhaps flatpack on acrh is worth considering.
As far as you now to update the system you should either use yay or yay -Syu not yay -Syuu.
Yay is a alias for yay -Syu , only when you install something you would use yay -Syu (package name), because before installing something you should always update first.
I think that you can use EOS update notifier, it seems to be an analogue of update management like in Ubuntu (but I haven’t figured it out for sure yet). And in Ubuntu I want to note that this is done very conveniently
