[SOLVED] Display manager

nef131 · 2013-07-29 23:13:27

cfr: "Did you correct the value of greeter-session?"

I earlier posted the results of the changes made to greeter-session. So, the answer is that I did.

cfr · 2013-07-29 23:27:18

So did you or did you not make the change specified in https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 5#p1304985 which pointed out that you had set greeter-session incorrectly? You did not address this one way or another - you rather suggested you had left things as they were "as earlier posted". I don't know if your comment about setting lightdm meant you changed the value of greeter-session in lightdm.conf or not.

Note that your latest post is ambiguous because you made changes to the config files earlier in the thread before the correct value for greeter-session was mentioned. Perhaps what you mean and are referring to is clear to you but you need to make things clear to your audience as well!

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nef131 · 2013-07-30 14:44:40

cfr: "So did you or did you not make the change specified in https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 5#p1304985 which pointed out that you had set greeter-session incorrectly?"

Yes. While I thought I had written the matter clearly, evidently I did not make myself clear for you. So that there is no ambiguity here at all, I changed the line greeter-session=lightdm-gtk3-greeter to read greeter-session=lightdm-gtk-greeter in the file named lightdm.conf.

nfisher.sr · 2013-07-30 21:09:16

I had some difficulty with lightdm recently myself. It had been functional and then started recycling endlessly when it couldn't start the greeter, and it didn't seem to matter which greeter was installed.

I can't say for sure, but since I made no configuration changes leading up to it my guess is that either a package upgrade or else something I installed from AUR might have caused the behavior. I still haven't tracked it down for sure. Maybe it's some kind of corner case, or possibly I did something dumb without realizing it. But re-installing and starting from scratch it kept displaying exactly the same behavior.

My temporary solution has been to install lightdm-dev and the corresponding lightdm-gtk3-greeter-dev from the AUR. I'm not entirely satisfied with doing things this way, as I never found the real problem, but it did correct the symptom right away. I'll wait until the lightdm package gets a version bump and then try the official package again. Anyway, if it helped out with my problem perhaps it will help with yours, too.

nef131 · 2013-07-31 00:23:07

nfisher.sr,

Thank you for your excellent suggestion. It works.

I am not sure whether to mark this discussion solved, in that the problem is with the lightdm program, evidently, but, nonetheless, I am marking it solved, assuming I can figure out where to mark it as such.

cfr · 2013-07-31 00:36:50

Edit your first post, tag the subject line.

If it is a bug, somebody should report it but if it has already been fixed upstream, it will filter through in due course.

karol · 2013-07-31 01:15:09

nef131 wrote:

I am not sure whether to mark this discussion solved, in that the problem is with the lightdm program, evidently, but, nonetheless, I am marking it solved, assuming I can figure out where to mark it as such.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=130309

nfisher.sr · 2013-07-31 02:11:03

If it is a bug, somebody should report it but if it has already been fixed upstream, it will filter through in due course.

I'll do a search tommorrow and see if any open or closed bugs match the behavior I saw. If not I'll get it reported. Can't do it tonight from work.

@nef131 - glad it helped, welcome.

carongangoo · 2014-11-06 11:05:36

Thank you for such interesting comments !

My case is a little bit different : I ran a Vm Arch Linux with different Desktop Environment : Mate , Xfce4 and Gnome and I enabled Gdm with "systemctl enable gdm ".
I also installled lightdm which I can also enable " systemctl disable gdm " and then systemctl enable lightdmdm.
I wanted to add Unity desktop to my Vm but I am always stuck because :
-when I want to repalce lightdm by ligthdm-ubuntu ( after replacing all previous packages by " Ubuntu" packages ), the Os does not allows be stating that " /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf" is already installed . When I edit the "-gtk-greeter.conf", NO COMMAND LINE IS UNCOMMENT !
But when I edit lightdm.conf , the following lines are active :
1.minimum-vt=1
2.run-directory =/run/lightdm
3.session-wrapper =/etc/lightdm/Xsession.

So, how to solve the conflit and install Unity ? Replace entirely lightdm or edit lightdm to include command lines to start Unity desktop ?

Regards

Caron

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