Changing the compositor in GNOMEΒΆ

GNOME is the default desktop environment in PureOS, which by default leverages the Wayland compositor.

If you need to run apps that are not yet ported to work on Wayland, you can launch a GNOME session using Xserver instead. To do this, click the gear icon on your login screen and select GNOME on Xorg:

Selecting which GNOME session to launch