Debian Bug report logs - #834401
sddm cannot set per user desktop choices

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Message #5 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Pirate Praveen <[email protected]>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>

Subject: sddm cannot set per user desktop choices

Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 14:24:01 +0530

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package: sddm
version: 0.13.0-1
severity: grave

I have two users in my system and when using sddm, each user has to
select their preferred desktop session **EVERY** single time. One user
wants KDE/Plasma and another GNOME. When first users selects GNOME and
logout, the second user also gets GNOME, even when they have selected
KDE/Plasma as their preferred session in previous login.

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Message #10 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Maximiliano Curia <[email protected]>

To: Pirate Praveen <[email protected]>, [email protected]

Subject: Re: Bug#834401: sddm cannot set per user desktop choices

Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2016 08:12:37 +0200

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Control: severity -1 normal

¡Hola Pirate!

El 2016-08-15 a las 14:24 +0530, Pirate Praveen escribió:
> package: sddm 
> version: 0.13.0-1 
> severity: grave

Sorry, this is bug alright, it's annoying, but still, it's a bug, it doesn't 
merit a grave severity.

> I have two users in my system and when using sddm, each user has to 
> select their preferred desktop session **EVERY** single time. One user 
> wants KDE/Plasma and another GNOME. When first users selects GNOME and 
> logout, the second user also gets GNOME, even when they have selected 
> KDE/Plasma as their preferred session in previous login.

As a workaround you could use the .xsession script to start the desired 
session to each user.

Happy hacking,
-- 
"Nothing ever goes away." -- Commoner's Law of Ecology
Saludos /\/\ /\ >< `/

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Message #17 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Pirate Praveen <[email protected]>

To: Maximiliano Curia <[email protected]>,[email protected]

Subject: Re: Bug#834401: sddm cannot set per user desktop choices

Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2016 12:23:32 +0530

On 2016, സെപ്റ്റംബർ 6 11:42:37 AM IST, Maximiliano Curia <[email protected]> wrote:
>Sorry, this is bug alright, it's annoying, but still, it's a bug, it
>doesn't 
>merit a grave severity.
>

Alright. But isn't being able to choose a desktop environment a core functionality of a display manager?

Message #22 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Maximiliano Curia <[email protected]>

To: Pirate Praveen <[email protected]>, [email protected]

Subject: Re: Bug#834401: sddm cannot set per user desktop choices

Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2016 10:19:08 +0200

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Control: tag -1 + upstream
Control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/sddm/sddm/issues/346

¡Hola Pirate!

El 2016-09-06 a las 12:23 +0530, Pirate Praveen escribió:
>
>
> On 2016, സെപ്റ്റംബർ 6 11:42:37 AM IST, Maximiliano Curia <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Sorry, this is bug alright, it's annoying, but still, it's a bug, it 
>> doesn't 
>> merit a grave severity.

> Alright. But isn't being able to choose a desktop environment a core 
> functionality of a display manager?

I don't remember xdm having a session selection (other than the .xsession 
file). Also, you can choose your desktop environment, it just won't record the 
last one chosen by each user (but only the last one chosen globally).

Anyway, the feature request upstream is: 
https://github.com/sddm/sddm/issues/346

It's currently a post 1.0 goal, with some discussions about whether to use 
~/.dmrc, AccountsService or sssd...

Maybe a patch could move things forward (nudge, nudge).

Happy hacking,
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