That change made the unity-control-center user's panel history dialog stop working since it's filtering graphical session by they ":" entries and now those are writted as "tty"
See https://code.launchpad.net/~seb128/unity-control-center/user- graphical-sessions/+merge/210510 for some context We either need to revert that change or to update u-c-c, note that the issue should be sorted out before an eventual SRU of the lightdm change -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1380364 Title: lightdm writes XDISPLAY instead of tty device name to utmp record Status in Light Display Manager: Fix Released Status in Light Display Manager 1.10 series: New Status in Light Display Manager 1.14 series: New Status in Light Display Manager 1.16 series: New Status in lightdm package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: Until now, I've been using good old gdm-2.20.11 and wanted to switch to lightdm-1.12.1. If you list users logged in via the 'w' or 'who' command, it shows you who is logged in and what they are doing. Especially, on which tty. Example: USER TTY LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT user tty9 03Oct14 16days 1:52m 0.01s /bin/sh /etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc -- /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc Also, 'who' gives this information: user tty9 Oct 3 22:34 (:20) However, lightdm does not follow that tradition. Instead, it prints :0 instead of the actual tty, and something weird for other values (like ?xdm? instead of the idle value etc.) 'w': USER TTY LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT user :0 19:50 ?xdm? 23.82s 0.01s /bin/sh /etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc -- /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc Note: :0 is not tty, it is DISPLAY env. 'who': user :0 2014-10-12 19:50 (:0) The same for this one. I wonder, is this a bug (to me it seems so, because for every other program the correct values are reported)? It is a problem for me, because I have written scripts for automation etc. that parse w and who output to determine which tty is in use by which DISPLAY. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm/+bug/1380364/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
