> How could a user who is set to autologin change their default session - without logging out, changing to the new session, logging back in and hoping it works on reboot?
if you never changed the session in a specific way for your user the default will be used, if you changed it you need to do what you describe yes, no need of the "hoping it works", lightdm will just keep using the session you selected until you change it > Should they not expect that setting the default with either the sudo command or by editing the lightdm.conf file to do that for them? no, if the default was overwriting the choices, since there is only 1 system default possible it would mean that all users have to use the same session ... what if you use KDE and your roomate on the same computer XFCE? why shouldn't you both be allowed to have a different default? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1013129 Title: Changing user session does not work Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Change user-session=xubuntu to user-session=fluxbox in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf Does not change the desktop session on reboot with autologin set. Renaming xubuntu.desktop and xfce.desktop in/usr/share/xsessions/ appears to force the system to use the only remaining xsession. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: lightdm 1.2.1-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-25.40-generic 3.2.18 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-25-generic i686 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu8 Architecture: i386 CheckboxSubmission: 84cfaee623c9c4c3fbe2be58fb422c92 CheckboxSystem: 6ce041aeed0a2c17b3343b66d157175d Date: Thu Jun 14 12:39:38 2012 InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012) ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_GB:en TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: lightdm UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/1013129/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
