Lost ability to log in wayland + nvidia

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Recently, when installing Fedora 34, I was finally able to use Wayland session with Nvidia drivers.

More recently, I lost that possibility. Only GNOME and GNOME Classic sessions are available at login. Any idea on why it was lost? :thinking:

❯ rpm-ostree status
State: idle
Deployments:
● ostree://fedora:fedora/34/x86_64/silverblue
                   Version: 34.20210515.0 (2021-05-15T01:20:08Z)
                BaseCommit: 11ab388baaf93881b14247741d01d4f6a2ab243f477dd59a0cac7b0ed0879451
              GPGSignature: Valid signature by 8C5BA6990BDB26E19F2A1A801161AE6945719A39
       RemovedBasePackages: pipewire-pulseaudio 0.3.27-2.fc34, firefox 88.0.1-1.fc34
           LayeredPackages: code fedora-workstation-repositories firewall-config fish
                            gnome-boxes gnome-shell-extension-gpaste
                            gstreamer1-plugin-openh264 hunspell-es kmod-nvidia langpacks-es
                            moby-engine openssh-askpass pipx pulseaudio python3-invoke
                            qjackctl steam sushi tcpdump totem xclip xorg-x11-drv-nvidia
                            xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda
             LocalPackages: xow-0.4-1.fc32.x86_64

  ostree://fedora:fedora/34/x86_64/silverblue
                   Version: 34.20210512.0 (2021-05-12T05:19:28Z)
                BaseCommit: 12f85a0d59d262b5d128305de5634215e71c17c2dc2464f5669aa877085b5b43
              GPGSignature: Valid signature by 8C5BA6990BDB26E19F2A1A801161AE6945719A39
       RemovedBasePackages: pipewire-pulseaudio 0.3.27-1.fc34, firefox 88.0.1-1.fc34
           LayeredPackages: code fedora-workstation-repositories firewall-config fish
                            gnome-boxes gnome-shell-extension-gpaste
                            gstreamer1-plugin-openh264 hunspell-es kmod-nvidia langpacks-es
                            moby-engine openssh-askpass pipx pulseaudio python3-invoke
                            qjackctl steam sushi tcpdump totem xclip xorg-x11-drv-nvidia
                            xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda
             LocalPackages: xow-0.4-1.fc32.x86_64
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Read this. https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/04/xwayland-work-for-hardware-accelerated-nvidia-support-has-been-merged-in.You should only wait for this driver and all is fine.