guest session ignores session type selection

[Björn Michaelsen]

Lightdm seems to ignore the selected session type for guest sessions on trusty.

to reproduce:
0/ install gnome-fallback-session
1/ go to guest account
2/ select session type "gnome (metacity)"
3/ click button to open session

expected behavior:
gnome session opens

actual behavior:
unity session opens

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for the bug report, I noticed that as well. Robert, could you have a look?

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Is this really new for trusty? I would have thought that you never have been able to select session type for the guest session that way. Please note that no guest account exists by the time you click the button; a temporary account is created afterwards.

Anyway, I just wanted to chime in with the suggestion that if this gets fixed somehow, it would be great if also the language chooser (currently only on lightdm-gtk-greeter) could be used to set the language for a guest session on the fly. I suppose the code would be quite similar.

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

This has worked in at least lightdm 1.4

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package lightdm - 1.9.11-0ubuntu1

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lightdm (1.9.11-0ubuntu1) trusty; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release:
    - Don't use g_hash_table_get_keys_as_array, it's a glib 2.40 feature
 -- Robert Ancell <email address hidden> Thu, 13 Mar 2014 13:42:04 +1300

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

saucy has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any updates. Marking the saucy task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".