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Bug 775299 - GDM does not respect default session when automatic login is enabled
GDM does not respect default session when automatic login is enabled
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 773371
Product: gdm
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.22.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: GDM maintainers
GDM maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2016-11-29 05:48 UTC by Elena Haul
Modified: 2017-06-05 20:52 UTC
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Description Elena Haul 2016-11-29 05:48:09 UTC 
I configured GDM to log me in automatically, by setting the AutomaticLogin and AutomaticLoginEnable properties in /etc/gdm/custom.conf. However, when I do this, GDM no longer respects my default session preference.

My default session preference is Gnome Xorg. If I disable automatic login, then the GDM login screen always has Gnome Xorg selected automatically.

However, if I enable automatic login, then GDM automatically logs me into the Gnome Wayland session.

I have noticed that if I uncomment the "#WaylandEnable=false" line in /etc/gdm/custom.conf, then GDM does properly log me into Gnome Xorg automatically. However, this then means that GDM will be using Xorg too, instead of its default Wayland backend.

This was tested on Arch Linux with GDM 3.22.1-1.
Comment 1 mboquien 2017-01-08 20:48:37 UTC 
Duplicate of bug #774306?
Comment 2 André Klapper 2017-06-05 20:52:40 UTC 
Thanks for taking the time to report this.
This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 773371 ***