Wayland is the default experience for NVIDIA GPUs

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Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Issue

  • In Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, Red Hat has made Wayland the default experience for NVIDIA GPU users

Diagnostic Steps

  • As of NVIDIA driver version 470.52.02, NVIDIA has enabled support for xwayland
  • As of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, Red Hat has made Wayland the default for most users of the NVIDIA driver. The follow are exceptions:
    • Users of certain hybrid graphics configurations on laptops.
    • Grid computing users.
  • Red Hat will default additional configurations to Wayland over time as new driver functionality allows.

References:
How do I install the NVIDIA Proprietary driver on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 systems?
Changing the default Display Server from Wayland to Xorg

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