This may or may not be worth mentioning but the reason I totally purged lightdm was just using dpkg to change to gdm3 returns an error:
lance@lance-conroe:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm3 [sudo] password for lance: gdm.service is not active, cannot reload. invoke-rc.d: initscript gdm3, action "reload" failed. Of course I could also have run sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm and accomplished the same thing. -- 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
