WARNING: Seat type 'xlocal' is deprecated, use 'type=local' instead

[John Veness]

File /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/90-nvidia.conf contains "type=xlocal" but this gives "WARNING: Seat type 'xlocal' is deprecated, use 'type=local' instead" in lightdm.log.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Col.Row (col-row)]

I confirm that it is still the described behaviour.

admin@vmm--noble-mate:~$ lsb_release -rd
No LSB modules are available.
Description: Ubuntu Noble Numbat (development branch)
Release: 24.04
armin@vmm--noble-mate:~$ apt-cache policy nvidia-prime
nvidia-prime:
  Installed: 0.8.17.2
  Candidate: 0.8.17.2
  Version table:
 *** 0.8.17.2 500
        500 http://ftp.stw-bonn.de/ubuntu noble/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://ftp.stw-bonn.de/ubuntu noble/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
admin@vmm--noble-mate:~

also tested: Ubuntu MATE 23.10, Ubuntu MATE 22.04
Host: Ubuntu Mate 22.04 using virt-manager

$ journalctl -b -p4 --no-pager -u lightdm
Nov 01 07:32:04 host lightdm[876]: Seat type 'xlocal' is deprecated, use 'type=local' instead

$ lightdm --show-config
   [Seat:*]
…
I type=xlocal
…
Sources:type=xlocal
…
I /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/90-nvidia.conf
…
$ dpkg -S /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/90-nvidia.conf
nvidia-prime: /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/90-nvidia.conf

I changed my conf and have no other experience than the is journal a little bit cleaner. It would be welcome if you could correct the file in the package; sth. like:

sed -i 's/type=xlocal/type=local' /path/to/source/90-nvidia.conf