[LightDM] Fwd: Can't seem to change default session (user-session)

[Robert Ancell]

On Thu, 4 Aug 2016 at 08:25 MegaBrutal <megabrutal at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> My use case is the following:
> I need to build a restrictive Ubuntu system on which users have very
> limited space to tamper. Actually, the only thing they are allowed to
> do is to start a limited set of applications. I found that Openbox
> would be an ideal choice for a restrictive desktop environment. So I
> installed the openbox package, lightdm, and the unity greeter, then
> tried to set openbox as the default session by adding "user-session"
> to the LightDM config. For some reason, either LightDM or the greeter
> still insists to log me in to the Unity ("ubuntu" session), which of
> course fails, since Unity is not even installed.
>
> ...
>

Did you check if you have AccountsService installed? In that case the DMRC
configuration is ignored. The AccountsService configuration for each user
is stored in /var/lib/AccountsService/users/.


> I also wonder why this log file is named "seat0-greeter.log", while on
> the working system, the same logfile is named "x-0-greeter.log".
>

The greeter log file name was changed in lightdm 1.19.1.
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