Gnome apps cause WM to fail on Fedora 40

Sounds like: 2292321 – gnome shell wayland sessions crash when any app is launched

Try dnf downgrade mesa*

Then reboot and see if that resolves the issue. With KDE, using SDDM you get a black screen. Hopefully, they’ll get this resolved soon and pushed to stable.

If that is indeed your issue, you’ll need to stop updating until it’s fixed or place an
excludepkgs=mesa* in your dnf repo files.

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