Switch from gnome to sway

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Got my Reform Classic yesterday :slight_smile:

When setting it up for the first time, I unwillingly clicking on gnome instead of sway :\ I’ve spent the rest of yesterday and today trying to figure out how to switch it

In the handbook, it has the line “This choice will be reflected as the default on the login screen, but you can change that by pressing F3” Pressing F3 at the login screen on first boot does nothing.

I’ve been searching the forums, but the closest thing I can find to what I’m looking for is this thread, however the “greetd” folder mentioned does not exist. Googling the issue comes up with the same forum results.

I’d like to not have to go forth and reinstall the OS just to switch to Sway, but if that’s my only option then I will try and fight that battle.

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Congratulations! :partying_face:

Your login manager is probably gdm and not tuigreet. You can select a different desktop environment in gdm after you entered your username. It then shows a password prompt but also a tiny cog icon at the bottom right corner. Clicking that icon allows you to change the session from gnome to sway. What you select there will be remembered so that you do not have to change this every time.

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That is exactly what it was :slight_smile: Not knowing what “Tuigreet” and “gdm” are had made this a hard thing to search for. Thanks for the help <3

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With sway I used to just disable gdm completely and start it from tui.

To disable gdm:

sudo systemctl disable gdm3

When you land on tui, you enter your credentials and then just type sway to start the desktop environment. I know this is not for everyone though.

The arch wiki has a lot of useful information and I recommend you have a look. The core concepts can be applied to any OS.

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