Upgraded F35->F36, NVIDIA drivers, Wayland how?

I have just upgraded Fedora 35 to 36 and I now have the NVIDIA proprietary drivers working. I am still getting an X session. When I log in, I only get the one option (X not Wayland). I am using xfce4. How do I get a Wayland session?

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Welcome to :fedora:
Xfce don’t support wayland by default you have only 2 option as of now gnome or kde. Kde is still working on making more stable for wayland season as of 5.24 it is usable.

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does the nvidia driver actually even support native Wayland session?

It will support now i think

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/WaylandByDefaultOnNVIDIA

I think this is limited to GDM/Gnome at the moment. As noted here, I’m not sure if other login managers + DEs support this yet.

I can confirm that with the proprietary Nvidia drivers from RPM Fusion, I could use GDM/Gnome on Wayland. (At least that’s what I remember before having to go back to X11 because Zoom/Anydesk don’t support wayland yet, though).

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Yes, and has since F35 was released.
Things are still not 100% though since some apps do not support running on wayland.