Bug 345471

Summary:	lightdm kde greeter ignores user-session, always defaults to last used
Product:	[Plasma] lightdm	Reporter:	Carnë Draug <carandraug+dev>
Component:	greeter	Assignee:	David Edmundson <kde>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal	CC:	j.straight-kde
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	master
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Carnë Draug 2015-03-24 11:43:07 UTC

One of the configurations for lightdm is "user-session". This option allows to define the default session used for login. See "Changing the default session" on

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/LightDM/CommonConfiguration/

However, lightdm-kde just ignores this and always defaults to the last used "Previously used session".  This seems to happen here 

https://projects.kde.org/projects/playground/base/lightdm/repository/revisions/master/entry/themes/classic/contents/ui/main.qml#L233

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. uncomment and set "user-session" on /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf to something in /usr/share/xsessions
2. restart


Actual Results:  
Default session used by lightdm kde greeter is still "Previously used Session"

Expected Results:  
Default session should have changed to whatever was selected.

Comment 1 Jason Straight 2015-12-10 04:36:41 UTC

It also doesn't seem to honor the .dmrc (last session). On my systems Session=plasma and lightdm still doesn't start plasma.

Work okay with the gtk theme.

Comment 2 Nate Graham 2020-10-10 21:20:53 UTC

We no longer use lightDM, having moved to SDDM several years ago. As such, this bug report is no longer applicable. Bugs reports for the new SDDM-based login screen should be filed to one of two places:

1. Visual/UI bugs with the login screen UI itself, or feature requests: plasmashell | Theme - Breeze
2. Bugs with the login/user switching process: https://github.com/sddm/sddm/issues