Unable to login to GNOME Shell xorg session while Wayland session works properly

[Colin Law]

On Wed, 5 Jun 2019 at 10:33, Dr Rainer Woitok <rainer.woitok at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Colin,
>
> On Wednesday, 2019-06-05 08:44:29 +0100, you wrote:
>
> > ...
> > sudo apt install ubuntu-gnome-desktop^
> > note the ^ on the end, it is important.
>
> After doing a quick
>
>    man apt | grep -E '\^'
>
> and a not quite as quick Google search for
>
>    +"ubuntu-gnome-desktop^"
>
> without finding any clue  I humbly give in:  what's the  purpuse of that
> trailing "^"?

Actually I think I have been giving duff information, it should be
sudo apt install ubuntu-desktop^

I am not entirely sure what the ^ does.  Something to do with it being
a meta-package.
You are right, it is fiendishly difficult to google for.

Colin