Bug 12248

Summary:	Installing Mate, IceWM open (lightdm)
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Arnaud Vacquier <arnaud>
Component:	Installer	Assignee:	Atilla ÖNTAŞ <tarakbumba>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	Normal	CC:	jani.valimaa
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	lightdm	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Arnaud Vacquier 2014-01-08 19:39:45 CET

Description of problem:

I do netinstall (Mageia 4 RC)
I select Mate only as desktop

after reboot, it is IceWM who is open and not Mate

thank you


Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Manuel Hiebel 2014-01-08 19:42:14 CET

with what for dm ? lxdm ?

Comment 2 Arnaud Vacquier 2014-01-08 19:48:55 CET

i don't know, i just select Mate in custom installation
Check only Mate in list (unchecked other) before install

in virtualbox,we see it is IceWM as check by defaut :
http://pix.toile-libre.org/upload/original/1389206839.png

Comment 3 Manuel Hiebel 2014-01-08 19:51:56 CET

ok lightdm, cc jani, as iirc something similar for xfce was fixed

CC: (none) => jani.valimaa
Assignee: bugsquad => tarakbumba
Summary: Installing Mate, IceWM open => Installing Mate, IceWM open (lightdm)
Source RPM: (none) => lightdm

Comment 4 Jani Välimaa 2014-01-08 20:25:59 CET

This is happening because of feature in lightdm-gtk-greeter. To get session it first looks for users last/previous session, then the default one and if all these fails it just choses the first one available in sessions menu. This is the case when booting machine first time after install. IceWM is the first entry in the sessions menu.

Workarounded this in Xfce by providing config [1] file with default session set to Xfce. This default value is used in first boot. When booting next time, last used session is pre-selected.

[1] http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages?view=revision&revision=559749

Comment 5 Jani Välimaa 2014-01-08 20:31:18 CET

DEs using lightdm as default display manager should also provide such config file to workaround this "feature" in default greeter.

Comment 6 Atilla ÖNTAŞ 2014-01-08 21:40:12 CET

(In reply to Jani VÃ¤limaa from comment #4)
I have follow xfce steps and shamelessly stole Jani's workaround.
I have committed mate-session-manager-1.6.1-5.mga4 and waiting for freeze push. Hope this package solves the problem.

Comment 7 Manuel Hiebel 2014-01-09 17:34:45 CET

And was pushed, if you could test Arnaud.

Comment 8 Arnaud Vacquier 2014-01-09 18:28:40 CET

I do new install with only Mate and it is okay ;)

Fixed for me

Comment 9 Manuel Hiebel 2014-01-09 18:29:14 CET

great

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED