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@@ -44,7 +44,8 @@ Copyright @copyright{} 2017 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice@*
 Copyright @copyright{} 2017 George Clemmer@*
 Copyright @copyright{} 2017 Andy Wingo@*
 Copyright @copyright{} 2017 Arun Isaac@*
-Copyright @copyright{} 2017 nee
+Copyright @copyright{} 2017 nee@*
+Copyright @copyright{} 2018 Rutger Helling
 
 Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
 under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or
@@ -12151,6 +12152,13 @@ limited number of special-purpose system interfaces.  Additionally,
 adding a service made by @code{mate-desktop-service} adds the MATE
 metapackage to the system profile.
 
+The desktop environments in Guix use the Xorg display server by
+default.  If you'd like to use the newer display server protocol
+called Wayland, you need to use the @code{sddm-service} instead of the
+@code{slim-service} for the graphical login manager.  You should then
+select the ``GNOME (Wayland)'' session in SDDM.  Currently only GNOME
+has support for Wayland.
+
 @deffn {Scheme Procedure} gnome-desktop-service
 Return a service that adds the @code{gnome} package to the system
 profile, and extends polkit with the actions from