Description of problem: After an upgrade to Fedora 42, GDM no longer lists the awesome WM as an option in its desktop environment selector. I suspect this is related to the deprecation of X11. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gdm-48.0-1.fc42.x86_64 awesome-4.3-19.fc42.x86_64 How reproducible: Every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot into GDM. 2. Select a user. 3. Select the desktop environment selector. Actual results: The list of options does not include the awesome window manager. Expected results: Using awesome as a WM should work. Additional info: I copied /usr/share/xsessions/awesome.desktop to /usr/share/wayland-sessions. This caused GDM to display awesome as an option. However, selecting that option and completing the login process produced the following error: [...] (nm-applet:18221): Gtk-WARNING **: 13:49:51.933: cannot open display: :0 2025-04-02 13:49:51 E: awesome: main:708: cannot open display (error 1) Awesome exited after printing this error, and the system returned me to the GDM screen.
You need to switch to another display manager, as GDM no longer supports X11 sessions. One option is SDDM: $ sudo dnf install sddm $ sudo systemctl enable --force sddm $ sudo systemctl reboot
(In reply to Neal Gompa from comment #1) > You need to switch to another display manager, as GDM no longer > supports X11 sessions. > > One option is SDDM: > > $ sudo dnf install sddm > $ sudo systemctl enable --force sddm > $ sudo systemctl reboot On my x1 laptop, awesome just hang there after I choose it in the session. When I installed below rpms, I can successfully boot and enter into awesome window manager. dnf install gnome-session-xession xorg-x11-xinit-session I searched it from this blog, add it here just in case someone else met this issue too like me. https://blog.melnib.one/2024/11/30/awesomewm-on-fedora-41/