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If you are interesting in hacking on Pantheon's Wayland support, you will need to create the session files. These are:
If you are interesting in hacking on Pantheon's Wayland support, you will need to build [session-settings](https://github.com/elementary/session-settings) with Wayland support:
`/usr/share/wayland-sessions/pantheon-wayland.desktop` with the following contents:
```
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Pantheon (Wayland)
Comment=This session provides elementary experience
Exec=gnome-session --builtin --session=pantheon-wayland
TryExec=io.elementary.wingpanel
Icon=
DesktopNames=Pantheon
Type=Application
```bash
meson build --prefix=/usr -Dwayland=true
cd build
ninja install
```
And `/usr/share/gnome-session/sessions/pantheon-wayland.session` with the following contents:
```
[GNOME Session]
Name=Pantheon (Wayland)
RequiredComponents=gala-wayland;gala-daemon;org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.A11ySettings;org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Color;org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Datetime;org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Housekeeping;org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Keyboard;org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.MediaKeys;org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Power;org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.PrintNotifications;org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Rfkill;org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Sharing;org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Smartcard;org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Sound;org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Wacom;org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.XSettings;
FallbackSession=pantheon
DesktopName=Pantheon
```
Once these are created, the greeter should offer the choice between Pantheon and Pantheon (Wayland).
Once the Wayland session is installed, the greeter should offer the choice between Pantheon and Pantheon (Wayland).
At the time of writing, there are currently two blocking issues in Gala that cause it to hang/crash during startup when running it in Wayland mode. These are: \
[#970](https://github.com/elementary/gala/issues/970)