I tested again this AM beginning with a fresh install of 20180227, applying updates, and then installing gnome-panel. During installation I chose to auto-login so after initially logging out and selecting flashback w/metacity I still booted the default DE.
But that was expected behavior based on prior testing of Bionic. So I rebooted, then tried logging out again and selecting flashback w/metacity and still I just get the default DE. Next I opened the Users window and turned auto-login off, rebooted and selected flashback w/metacity but still I just get the default DE. Those initial results from last night were based on a slightly older install where I had been using lightdm with the unity greeter, but I purged lightdm and then autoremoved all leftover depends. Clearly that didn't give me a clean enough install to produce a reliable result. Bottom line = it's not fixed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-session in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1749481 Title: Wrong session marked as selected in session dropdown on login screen Status in gdm: Invalid Status in gdm3 package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Status in gnome-session package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: My usual session is "Ubuntu" (/usr/share/xsessions/ubuntu.desktop). When I reboot my machine, on the login screen if I click the cog icon to show the list of sessions available, a dot is displayed to the left of the first session in the list ("GNOME"), instead of "Ubuntu". If I don't click on a session to change it, when I log in the session used is "Ubuntu" as expected, not "GNOME". So the greeter fails to reflect which session is actually selected when first displaying the dropdown, but internally it doesn't mess up with session selection. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 Package: gdm3 3.26.2.1-2ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-32.35-generic 4.13.13 Uname: Linux 4.13.0-32-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl zcommon znvpair ApportVersion: 2.20.8-0ubuntu10 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Wed Feb 14 16:00:38 2018 EcryptfsInUse: Yes InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-07-02 (591 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160420.1) SourcePackage: gdm3 UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-01-29 (16 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gdm/+bug/1749481/+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
