Bug 543548 - gdm doesn't save my options regarding choice of desktop environment
Summary: gdm doesn't save my options regarding choice of desktop environment
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 539638
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gdm
Version: 12
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: jmccann
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-12-02 16:01 UTC by Aioanei Rares
Modified: 2015-01-14 23:24 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2009-12-05 21:18:09 UTC
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The requested session file for KDE (3.80 KB, application/octet-stream)
2009-12-03 13:48 UTC, Aioanei Rares 		no flags Details
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Description Aioanei Rares 2009-12-02 16:01:16 UTC 
Description of problem:


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

gdm-2.28.1-24.fc12.x86_64

How reproducible:

Everytime

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual results:


Expected results:


Additional info:
Comment 1 Ray Strode [halfline] 2009-12-02 18:30:32 UTC 
works for me, after you make a choice what does your ~/.dmrc file say?
Comment 2 Aioanei Rares 2009-12-02 20:11:39 UTC 
bash-4.0$ cat .dmrc
[Desktop]
Session=default
bash-4.0$
Comment 3 Ray Strode [halfline] 2009-12-02 20:32:45 UTC 
what are the permissions on that file?

if you move it out of the way, does your problem get "fixed" ?
Comment 4 Aioanei Rares 2009-12-02 21:07:02 UTC 
I did a 'mv .dmrc .dmrc_old' and tried again, but no, GDM still defaults to Gnome.
Comment 5 Aioanei Rares 2009-12-02 21:51:51 UTC 
And the write perms on the file are 0755, owner $USER.
Comment 6 Ray Strode [halfline] 2009-12-03 02:17:22 UTC 
what are the contents of the file now?
Comment 7 Ray Strode [halfline] 2009-12-03 02:18:23 UTC 
also what session are you trying to log in to?  Can you attach the associated file from /usr/share/xsessions ?
Comment 8 Aioanei Rares 2009-12-03 13:47:50 UTC 
I'm trying to log into KDE; the file contents are exactly the same.
Comment 9 Aioanei Rares 2009-12-03 13:48:59 UTC 
Created attachment 375779 [details]
The requested session file for KDE
Comment 10 Aioanei Rares 2009-12-03 13:59:33 UTC 
As a side note, it works as expected in Rawhide.
Comment 11 Ray Strode [halfline] 2009-12-03 14:53:34 UTC 
strange, i wonder how "default" is getting written for session.  afaik, GDM won't ever write "default" in there.
Comment 12 Sergey Rudchenko 2009-12-05 21:16:48 UTC 
Thank you for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

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Comment 13 Sergey Rudchenko 2009-12-05 21:18:09 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 539638 ***
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