I'm confused about the status of Gnome and Wayland of Fedora 30

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I feel like I was led to believe that Gnome would be defaulted to Wayland with Fedora 30. However, I am finding that this does not seem to be the case, and others around the Internet are telling me that it’s not. I have searched for documentation about this, but nothing I have found addresses it, specifically.

I can force almost any application to run under native Wayland, including my Gnome terminals. However, no matter what I do, gnome-shell itself runs under Xwayland. Is this the correct state of affairs?

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The Shell itself shouldn’t run under XWayland, but it is started by default and integrated to provide Xorg compatibility. There is work going into 3.34 to make this on-demand, however.

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Thank you, @refi64 . It is only the gnome-shell running in Xwayland, according to Looking Glass.