X-Debbugs-Cc: kh...@wisc.edu Package: lightdm-gtk-greeter Version: 1.8.5-2 Severity: normal Tags: upstream
Dear Maintainer, I run a number of computer labs, and use lightdm with the gtk greeter. I haven't had time to patch the code, but have looked through the code. Despite being able to configure a default session for ligthdm, once lightdm has entered and exited a session it stores that selection in its XDG_CACHE_HOME directory. It then uses that saved session as the default for the next time, overriding the default preference. I can see where this might be an ok behavior in a home environment, but in a lab environment it is problematic because users tend to expect the same defaults every time rather than based on the last user. (I've temporarily disabled this by making a link to /dev/null from $XDG_CACHE_HOME/lightdm-gtk-greeter, preventing lightdm-gtk-greeter from creating its state file.) -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.5 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages lightdm-gtk-greeter depends on: ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u4 ii libcairo2 1.14.0-2.1+deb8u1 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.31.1-2+deb8u5 ii libglib2.0-0 2.42.1-1+b1 ii libgtk-3-0 3.14.5-1+deb8u1 ii liblightdm-gobject-1-0 1.10.3-3 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.2-3 Versions of packages lightdm-gtk-greeter recommends: ii desktop-base 8.0.2 ii gnome-icon-theme-symbolic 3.12.0-1 ii gnome-themes-standard 3.14.2.2-1 ii policykit-1 0.105-8 lightdm-gtk-greeter suggests no packages. -- Configuration Files: /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf changed [not included]