synaptic on 17.10

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Wed, 24 Jan 2018 18:24:10 +0000, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
>my friend has gone home and distance coaching isn't very practical.

It's just that Wayland became the default, following the fashion to
make something that still breaks a lot of things a new default, instead
of waiting until the issues are fixed. Seemingly it's possible to chose
a X session by the display manager's greater.

This seems to be the current DM greater and it seems to show where to
select a X session: https://itsfoss.com/switch-xorg-wayland/

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