mate-session starts instead when i3 was selected on login screen
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
MATE Desktop |
New
|
Unknown
|
|||
arctica-greeter (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
mate-session-manager (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned |
Bug Description
Steps to reproduce:
1. Have Ubuntu MATE 20.10 installed
2. Install i3 with `sudo apt-get install i3*`
3. Reboot machine
4. Select i3 (or i3 with debug) on login screen
Expected results:
* i3 starts
Actual results:
* MATE starts instead of i3
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.10
Package: mate-session-
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 5.8.0-25-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu50
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckR
CurrentDesktop: MATE
Date: Tue Jan 5 22:27:29 2021
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-10-23 (74 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-MATE 20.10 "Groovy Gorilla" - Release amd64 (20201022)
SourcePackage: mate-session-
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Changed in arctica-greeter (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
no longer affects: | lightdm (Ubuntu) |
Changed in mate-desktop: | |
status: | Unknown → New |
tags: | added: hirsute |
tags: | removed: groovy |
no longer affects: | ubuntu-mate |
Changed in mate-session-manager (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Invalid |
It seems that ~/.dmrc
$ cat .dmrc i3-with- shmlog
[Desktop]
Session=
is ignored or not written, or something similar.
So the workaround is a bit horrible and MATE-destructive:
``` manager
sudo apt autopurge mate-session-
```