Installing gnome-session-flashback in Ubuntu GNOME Trusty provides a Flashback (Compiz) session when compiz is not installed
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-panel (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Trusty |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
[Impact]
Ubuntu GNOME users may install 'gnome-
[Test Case]
Install Ubuntu GNOME Trusty selecting to automatically login during installation, apply all updates and reboot when prompted. Do not edit any key sequences. Upon reboot install only 'gnome-
[Regression Potential]
None based on testing Ubuntu GNOME, Ubuntu, and Edubuntu Utopic with the patched files. The Edubuntu test was performed by choosing "flashback" as the default DE during installation with the Utopic 20140623 i386 image. I also tested Ubuntu GNOME both prior to and after installing 'compiz' to be sure we broke no sessions.
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Just as the title says, installing 'gnome-
lance@lance-
gnome-classic.
gnome.desktop gnome-fallback.
lance@lance-
compiz:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1:0.9.11+
Version table:
1:
500 http://
1:
500 http://
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/
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-
ProcVersionSign
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)
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-panel
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Related branches
- Dmitry Shachnev: Approve
- Ubuntu branches: Pending requested
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Diff: 40 lines (+9/-2)3 files modifieddata/gnome-fallback-compiz.desktop.in (+1/-1)
debian/changelog (+7/-0)
debian/patches/50_ubuntu_sessions.patch (+1/-1)
tags: | added: utopic |
description: | updated |
tags: |
added: verification-done removed: verification-needed |
This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.
A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here: iso.qa. ubuntu. com/qatracker/ reports/ bugs/1332183
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