Package: lightdm Version: 1.4.0-1 Severity: wishlist Hello,
ligthdm originally used the file .dmrc in a user's home directory to store the default session and language per user. As someone filed an upstream bug report to replace .dmrc with AccountsService known from gdm [1], the lightdm developers added support for AccountService and lightdm would now use .dmrc only when AccountsService is not available which is not the case on most systems (since gdm3 depends on AccountsService, for example and gdm3 always gets installed when gnome3 is installed). While AccountsService works nicely on a local setup, it is rather problematic in an enterprise setup with network logins through LDAP or NIS and an NFS-shared home directory. The problem is the fact that AccountsService stores the user settings for default language and session in /var/lib/AccountService/users/$USER which is usually a local filesystem. Thus, whenever a user changes the computer they use to log in, their stored default session and language are lost which is rather annoying and more or less defies the point of AccountsService. I would therefore suggest to allow to configure whether lightdm uses the .dmrc file or AccountsService to store this information. The best would be an option in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf to keep this information. The default setting should be "auto" which will use AccountsService if available and .dmrc otherwise plus allowing to set it to "accountsservice" or "dmrc" to allow custom configuration. Cheers, Adrian > [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/823718 _______________________________________________ Pkg-xfce-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-xfce-devel
