<div dir="ltr">(François replied to me directly with configuration).<div><br></div><div>The configuration looks correct. Yes, user-session works for picking the default session. This is confirmed by regression tests and is working on my Ubuntu system.</div><div><br></div><div>The next step is to check the greeter as that is what is ultimately telling LightDM what session to use:</div><div><div>[+106.83s] DEBUG: Session pid=964: Greeter requests session gnome-classic</div></div><div><br></div><div>LightDM would have told the greeter that the default session is "mate" but the greeter for some reason has picked "gnome-classic". Probably because that's the last session that user logged into (stored in AccountsService or ~/.dmrc).</div><div><br></div><div>--Robert</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 3 September 2014 08:46, Robert Ancell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robert.ancell@gmail.com" target="_blank">robert.ancell@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Was that your full configuration you pasted?<br></div><div><br></div><div>Because you seem to have:</div><div><div>user-session = mate</div></div><div><br></div><div>When it should be:</div><div>[SeatDefaults]</div>
<div>user-session=mate</div><div><br></div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 2 September 2014 20:00, François Dagorn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Francois.Dagorn@univ-rennes1.fr" target="_blank">Francois.Dagorn@univ-rennes1.fr</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hum, after reading greeter.c, I should receive<br>
<br>
"Greeter requests default session"<br>
rather than<br>
"Greeter requests session gnome-classic"<br>
<br>
/* Use session type chosen in remote session */<br>
if (greeter->priv->remote_session)<br>
{<br>
session_type = SESSION_TYPE_REMOTE;<br>
session = greeter->priv->remote_session;<br>
}<br>
<br>
So, session seems to be "gnome-classic" and my question is now<br>
why greeter->priv->remote_session returns "gnome-classic" in the case<br>
of a brand new user (with an empty homedir).<br>
<div><br>
Any help would be appreciated.<br>
<br>
</div>cheers !<br>
<div><div><br>
--<br>
François<br>
<br>
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