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No option to switch from xorg to Wayland on Ubuntu 17.10 login

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I don't see the gear button next to the Sign in button at the login screen. I have Nvidia drivers installed (for Nvidia 730 GT card). Ubuntu boots into Xorg as seen from the terminal with echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE which outputs x11.

How do I switch to Wayland?

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answered 1 Year ago lotceptin · Accepted Answer

That means Wayland is disabled by your hardware and choice of drivers for it. You need to switch to nouveau to get Wayland working.

You might face this issue once you do it: GNOME has grey bar on top and bottom after upgrade from 17.04 to 17.10, how do I fix it to how it's supposed to look?