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GDM: Document problems with using Wayland on NVIDIA GPUs

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introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
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<para>August 1st, 2023</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>[renodr] - Document some of GDM's behavior with NVIDIA GPUs, and
a potential workaround if users wish to try it. Fixes
<ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;18266">#18266</ulink>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[ken] - Update to firefox-115.1.0esr (security update). Fixes
<ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;18310">#18310</ulink>.</para>

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a newer version of <application>GDM</application>.
</para>
<para>
On some systems with NVIDIA GPUs, GDM will hide Wayland sessions by
default. This is often done to prevent users from encountering problems
with buggy drivers, which can result in system lockups, application
crashes, power management problems, and graphics slowdowns. If you have
an NVIDIA GPU and still want to try running Wayland sessions anyway,
execute the following command:
</para>
<screen role="nodump"><userinput>ln -s /dev/null /etc/udev/rules.d/61-gdm.rules</userinput></screen>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="gdm-init">