[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#767359: Bug#767359: Bug#767359: lightdm: Selected session not remembered anymore

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On jeu., 2014-10-30 at 20:07 +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> control: tag -1 moreinfo
> On jeu., 2014-10-30 at 13:57 +0100, Cesare Leonardi wrote:
> > Package: lightdm
> > Version: 1.10.3-2
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > Suppose you have installed multiple desktop environment (in my case
> > XFCE and MATE). At the lightdm login there is the icon that let you
> > choose which one to start: default, mate, xfce.
> > Well, since some lightdm version (if i recall correctly 1.10.2-3), the
> > user choice is not remembered anymore between reboot and default is
> > always restored. A problem if default is not what you want.
> 
> Can you revert to 1.10.2-2 and confirm that?
> > 
> > So now if you want to keep your preference, you have to use the less
> > obvious and more hidden:
> > update-alternatives --display x-session-manager
> > 
> > Is it a bug or is it on purpose?
> 
> It looks like a bug. 1.10.2-3 had some changes which might be related.
> Also, can you paste your .dmrc when you chose a different session than
> the default one?

Actually, I think it might not be related to 1.10.2-3 changes, but
rather the new upstream release 1.10.3. It has a NEWS entry:

    * Don't access .dmrc files until information from these files is
required


And I guess that change broke the loading (or maybe the saving,
actually) of the information.

Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis
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