Re: gdm3

["Sridhar M.A." <mas@mylug.org>]

On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 02:46:43PM +0000, Camaleón wrote:
   > 
Sorry for the delay in replying. The laptop was with my niece. 

   > What's the content of your "/var/lib/AccountsService/users/your_username" 

[User]
Language=
XSession=openbox

   > file? And what's the output of "ls -la /usr/share/xsessions"?
   > 
ls -la /usr/share/xsessions
total 56
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Nov  6 18:37 ./
drwxr-xr-x 365 root root 12288 Nov 14 12:44 ../
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  6702 Oct 14 16:14 gnome.desktop
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  6987 Oct 14 16:14 gnome-fallback.desktop
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   164 May 25 20:28 openbox.desktop
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   218 May 25 20:27 openbox-gnome.desktop
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   205 May 25 20:27 openbox-kde.desktop
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  2824 Feb  9  2011 twm.desktop
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  5808 Oct 25 02:20 xfce.desktop

   > And what's the problem now, a) that you cannot select the session from 
   > the dropdown menu because is not visible, b) that while you select your 
   > session type you are logged into GNOME or c) that the last selected 
   > session is not kept for the next login? :-)
   > 
The answer is (c). My selection is not remembered and I have to do it
every time I login. 

   > Also, try to create a fresh new user and check if it works from there.
   > 
Deleted all ~/.* and tried with the same result.

Regards,

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