Your assumption was right. I moved the WhiskerMenu to the left beside the App menu. It is much better! Thank you! If I remove the App menu, use Whisker, how do I put the the App menu back if I ever want it?
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The same way you added the WhiskerMenu.
The Add items tab also has a Remove button. You can add on or remove any item that fits on the panel.
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Thank you again!
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When I use the gear on the login screen, I now have a choice between XFCE, Zorin 18 Wayland, Zorin 18 Xorg (these I understand), and for some reason two additional ones labelled Zorin 18. The extras seem not to be Wayland. How do I get rid of them and should I?
My reason for thinking they are not Wayland is because they do not run Parabolic. For some reason, it only runs on the Wayland version of Zorin.
Could You make a Picture of the Choice and post it here?
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These are stored as .desktop files in /usr/share/xsessions/
Show your terminal output for
ls /usr/share/xsessions/
We can help you safely figure out which are supeerfluous.
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steve@stevec:~$ ls /usr/share/xsessions/
xfce.desktop zorin.desktop zorin-xorg.desktop
steve@stevec:~$
Ugh.
Ok also
/usr/share/wayland-sessions/
If you have duplicates in there... the extras can be removed.
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steve@stevec:~$ ls /usr/share/wayland-sessions/
zorin.desktop zorin-wayland.desktop
steve@stevec:~$
You can see that there is a zorin.desktop file in each folder - and GDM is reading from both folders.
You can remove
sudo rm /usr/share/wayland-sessions/zorin.desktop
safely.
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OK, now down to four. Why four? How should I best use them?
The first option is Zorin using XFCE Desktop.
The second option is Zorin using Gnome Desktop on the default compositor.
The third option is Zorin using Gnome Desktop on Wayland.
The forth option is Zorin using Gnome Desktop on X11 (Xorg)
How you should choose is up to you - you know your needs and preferences.
The last I knew, you were using XFCE on Xorg - which is the first option.
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Right, then I went back to the Zorin using Gnome Desktop on Wayland. I tried the Zorin using Gnome Desktop on X11 (Xorg), but no idea why I have the second, or how best to use them
In that case, choices 2 or 3 fit your preferences.
Does Zorin Core use Wayland as the default? Just trying to understand the difference.
The zorin.desktop file will read whether the system can run Wayland with its graphics stack and choose Xorg or Wayland based on that.
The others, which specify the display manager, will use only that specified DM.
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Well, I can run Parabolic on #2 which suggests Wayland is running, so do I need #3? or should it be removed?
What is your terminal output for:
echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE
it says x11