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Arctica greeter does not play well with accountsservice

Open N0rbert opened this issue 5 years ago • 1 comments

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Have Ubuntu MATE 20.10 installed
  2. Install i3 with sudo apt-get install i3*
  3. Reboot machine
  4. Select i3 (or i3 with debug) on login screen

Expected results:

  • i3 starts

Actual results:

  • MATE starts instead of i3

Extra info:

After entering to "i3" it says:

$ sudo grep Session /var/lib/AccountsService/users/$USER
Session=mate
XSession=mate

After removing mate-session-manager it shows the following:

$ sudo grep Session /var/lib/AccountsService/users/$USER
Session=mate
XSession=i3

Downstream bug-report - https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1910279 .

N0rbert avatar Jan 05 '21 22:01 N0rbert

Still happens on latest Ubuntu MATE 22.04 LTS beta.

N0rbert avatar Apr 09 '22 17:04 N0rbert