Hello Stephane,

I'm still running natty with the ldm package from your PPA, as you
suggested. This does definitely not work as expected:
Chosing "default" from the ldm login screen does not honor ~/.dmrc.
It's true that ldm somehow remembers the last session the user chose,
but this is not reflected in ~/.dmrc. (Actually where does ldm save
the default session? I was not able to find out.)

I have been trying for several hours and could just not predict how
ldm choses the default session. Sometimes it seemd to depend on
~/.dmrc, sometimes it didn't. Since I cannot run a production system
for hundreds of users without being able to predict what login session
they will see, I turned back to forcing gnome-classic via
LDM_XSESSION. This, at least, works reliably.

Expected behaviour: ldm should behave exactly as gdm would, i.e. save
the user's choice in ~/.dmrc and act accordingly. Specifically, there
should be no difference if the user logs in locally on the server via
gdm, or logs on remotely on a client via ldm. (Some users in our setup
can actually log onto the server directly. This ldm and gdm must
interact transparently.)

If you say the problem has been fixed in oneiric, I will be happy to
upgrade during the next off-service time, e.g., next weekend.

Regards,
Rüdiger

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 8:31 PM, Stéphane Graber <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On 10/17/2011 12:07 PM, Dr. Ruediger Kupper wrote:
>> Hi Paul,
>>
>> you may want to try passing this to "LDM_XSESSION", not
>> "LDM_SESSION". Like "LDM_XSESSION=gnome-session
>> --session=classic-gnome".
>>
>> For me, this forced classic gnome for all users. However, like
>> others on this list pointed out, this is not the intended way of
>> doing it. Specifically, this will bypass any scripts that are
>> usually executed on xserver startup, which may cause other
>> problems.
>>
>> Sad to hear that session handling is still broken in oneiric.
>>
>> Rüdiger
>
> Hmm, not quite sure what you mean there:
> LDM_SESSION="gnome-session --session=gnome-fallback"
>
> Is what we use on Oneiric for Edubuntu since the second week of the
> development cycle, it works perfectly and as it's using LDM_SESSION
> and not LDM_XSESSION, it's the right and clean way of doing it.
>
>
> - --
> Stéphane Graber
> Ubuntu developer
> http://www.ubuntu.com
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