Public bug reported:
Just as the title says, installing 'gnome-session-flashback' in Ubuntu
GNOME provides a GNOME Flashback (Compiz) session even though 'compiz'
is not installed:
lance@lance-desktop:~$ ls /usr/share/xsessions
gnome-classic.desktop gnome-fallback-compiz.desktop
gnome.desktop gnome-fallback.desktop
lance@lance-desktop:~$ apt-cache policy compiz
compiz:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1:0.9.11+14.04.20140423-0ubuntu1
Version table:
1:0.9.11+14.04.20140423-0ubuntu1 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main i386
Packages
1:0.9.11+14.04.20140409-0ubuntu1 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main i386 Packages
This is much more than a minor inconvenience since Ubuntu GNOME has no
keyboard shortcut set for killing X out-of-box so, if the user selected
auto-login during installation, with no window manager running it can be
quite difficult to get back to the login screen to select a different
session.
The easiest way I found so far is to open a TTY via Ctrl+Alt+F1 and then
run "sudo nano /etc/gdm/custom.conf", change "AutomaticLoginEnable=true"
to "AutomaticLoginEnable=False", then run "sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm",
followed by "sudo reboot". Then on reboot a working session can be
selected.
I would hope that there is some way to NOT display a session if it's
window manager is not installed.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: gnome-session-flashback 1:3.8.0-1ubuntu12
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-29.53-generic 3.13.11.2
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-29-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.2
Architecture: i386
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Thu Jun 19 11:27:41 2014
GsettingsChanges:
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-05-30 (20 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release i386
(20140416.2)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-panel
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: gnome-panel (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug i386 trusty
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Title:
Installing gnome-session-flashback in Ubuntu GNOME Trusty provides a
Flashback (Compiz) session when compiz is not installed
Status in “gnome-panel” package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
Just as the title says, installing 'gnome-session-flashback' in Ubuntu
GNOME provides a GNOME Flashback (Compiz) session even though 'compiz'
is not installed:
lance@lance-desktop:~$ ls /usr/share/xsessions
gnome-classic.desktop gnome-fallback-compiz.desktop
gnome.desktop gnome-fallback.desktop
lance@lance-desktop:~$ apt-cache policy compiz
compiz:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1:0.9.11+14.04.20140423-0ubuntu1
Version table:
1:0.9.11+14.04.20140423-0ubuntu1 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main i386
Packages
1:0.9.11+14.04.20140409-0ubuntu1 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main i386 Packages
This is much more than a minor inconvenience since Ubuntu GNOME has no
keyboard shortcut set for killing X out-of-box so, if the user
selected auto-login during installation, with no window manager
running it can be quite difficult to get back to the login screen to
select a different session.
The easiest way I found so far is to open a TTY via Ctrl+Alt+F1 and
then run "sudo nano /etc/gdm/custom.conf", change
"AutomaticLoginEnable=true" to "AutomaticLoginEnable=False", then run
"sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm", followed by "sudo reboot". Then on reboot
a working session can be selected.
I would hope that there is some way to NOT display a session if it's
window manager is not installed.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: gnome-session-flashback 1:3.8.0-1ubuntu12
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-29.53-generic 3.13.11.2
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-29-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.2
Architecture: i386
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Thu Jun 19 11:27:41 2014
GsettingsChanges:
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-05-30 (20 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release i386
(20140416.2)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-panel
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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