Light Display Manager

  1. Bug #871070
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 871070

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Mike Perrin (mperrin) wrote :

I observed this bug on a fresh install of Ubuntu 11.10 using LightDM. Terminal logins are reported by who but the console GUI login is not. Changing the display manager to gdm solves the problem. Here are the responses obtained executing the who command with a single terminal window open.

Using GDM:
mike tty7 2011-10-16 14:21 (:0)
mike pts/0 2011-10-16 14:22 (:0.0)

Using LightDM:
mike pts/0 2011-10-16 14:38 (:0.0)

This bug prevents me from using LightDM because I run a background process that monitors user logins/logouts and mounts/unmounts CIFS shares on those events. With LightDM, the console GUI login is never seen.