It looks like file /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf is depreciated when control of LighDM is concerned... Am I wrong...? It seems that current status of LightDM session is written elsewhere... Update₁: Am I right in thinking that ~/.dmrc is now place where data about current session is saved...? /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf is left for other stuff...
/etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
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zika said: It looks like file /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf is depreciated when control of LighDM is concerned... Am I wrong...? It seems that current status of LightDM session is written elsewhere...
Update₁: Am I right in thinking that ~/.dmrc is now place where data about current session is saved...? /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf is left for other stuff...
I have the following lines in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf. All others are commented.
[LightDM] minimum-vt=7 seats=seat-0 [GuestAccount] enabled=false [SeatDefaults] user-session=gnome allow-guest=false greeter-session=lightdm-gtk-greeter
Harry33 said: I have the following lines in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf. All others are commented.
[LightDM] minimum-vt=7 seats=seat-0 [GuestAccount] enabled=false [SeatDefaults] user-session=gnome allow-guest=false greeter-session=lightdm-gtk-greeter I've never had first two sections of Your .conf file... Lately it does not matter what is in``` [SeatDefaults] user-session=gnome
:~$ cat /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf [SeatDefaults] #greeter-session=lightdm-gtk-greeter greeter-session=unity-greeter #user-session=gnome-classic #user-session=ubuntu-2d #user-session=ubuntu #user-session=fluxbox #user-session=openbox #user-session=gnome-shell #user-session=xsession #user-session=gnome-fallback user-session=cinnamon autologin-user=zika allow-guest=false greeter-hide-users=true
Update₁: ~/.dmrc is not the place to edit... It is generated by LightDM at the start and not read before start... It is a derviative of some other file where information about the latest session used is stored... /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf is not used at least for user-session... ;) Investigating still...:~$ cat .dmrc [Desktop] Language=en_US Layout=rs latin Session=cinnamon Langlist=en_US:en LCMess=en_US.UTF-8
Update₂: All this is problem if there is greeter-session=unity-greeter in use. If it is greeter-session=lightdm-gtk-greeter there is no problem and everything as we used it to be...zika said: I've never had first two sections of Your .conf file...
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Update₂: All this is problem if there is greeter-session=unity-greeter in use. If it is greeter-session=lightdm-gtk-greeter there is no problem and everything as we used it to be...
Well is this when you have lightdm-gtk-greeter installed, for example with gnome-shell? And further, if you do not have unity-greeter installed at all?
Harry33 said: Well is this when you have lightdm-gtk-greeter installed, for example with gnome-shell?
And further, if you do not have unity-greeter installed at all? To clarify:
- it happens only with unity-greeter i.e. unity greeter does not honor setting user-session in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
- lightdm-gtk-greeter does not have problem with this, it honors setting user-session in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
- it does not depend on a session I use...
- I noticed this awhile in precise but did not give it any attention until today a user on our Forum did have problem with advice I gave him how to use setting user-session in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf... It does not bother me personally much since I use startx very often... ;)
I did not try with unity-greeter not installed at all...
I also have noticed changes. In my 11.10 which has been upgraded to 12.04 /etc/lightdm has a unity-greeter.conf where the path to the lightDM background image is recorded as well as the theme.
But in 12.10 unity-greeter.conf is absent from /etc/lightdm. I have been searching for the script that holds the reference to the lightDM background image. I have been unsuccessful.
I also have a 12.04 that I converted to 12.10 and it has a unity-greeter.conf in /etc/lightdm but the 12.10 that I install from a daily ISO image does not have unity-greeter.conf in /etc/lightdm
There is a /usr/share/unity-greeter with icons. And in /usr/share/xsessions there are three files which I cannot open. Their properties say this:
GNOME Command gnome-session--session=gnome comment This session logs you into Gnome
Ubuntu Command UBUNTU gnome-session--session=ubuntu Comment This session logs you into Ubuntu
UBUNTU 2D Command gnome-session--ubuntu-2D Comment This session logs you into Ubuntu 2D mode
They are desktop configuration files but when I try to open one I get "Could not acquire name on session bus."
There is a usr/share/gnome-session/sessions folder with
gnome.session ubuntu.session ubuntu-2D.session
and these files will open in Gedit but do not have references to the login background image, which is what I am looking for.
Regards.