GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 793456
Wrong session marked as selected in session dropdown on login screen
Last modified: 2018-02-26 15:46:56 UTC
(initially reported in ubuntu: https://launchpad.net/bugs/1749481) My usual session is "Ubuntu" (/usr/share/xsessions/ubuntu.desktop). When I reboot my machine, on the login screen if I click the cog icon to show the list of sessions available, a dot is displayed to the left of the first session in the list ("GNOME"), instead of "Ubuntu". If I don't click on a session to change it, when I log in the session used is "Ubuntu" as expected, not "GNOME". So the greeter fails to reflect which session is actually selected when first displaying the dropdown, but internally it doesn't mess up with session selection. This is the layout of session files on my setup: osomon@bribon:~$ ls -l /usr/share/*sessions/ /usr/share/wayland-sessions/: total 8 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 207 févr. 6 10:57 gnome.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 265 févr. 6 10:57 ubuntu-wayland.desktop /usr/share/xsessions/: total 12 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 févr. 6 10:57 gnome.desktop -> gnome-xorg.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 201 févr. 6 10:57 gnome-xorg.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 253 févr. 6 10:57 ubuntu.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 249 févr. 6 10:57 unity.desktop
It's important to note that Ubuntu now has this patch: https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-desktop/gdm/ubuntu/revision/451
more specifically, this bug is in Ubuntu 18.04 Alpha where the default session is supposed to be Ubuntu (using X).
i think this is fixed by bug 793609 , please reopen if i'm wrong! *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 793609 ***