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Deuchnord

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From: France

Registered: 2015-04-04

Posts: 17

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MATE disappeared from my desktop environments on LightDM

Hi

I'm having a strange issue with MATE: since today, I can't login with this desktop environment, as it is not listed on LightDM any more.
After some investigation, I found MATE's .desktop file has completely disappeared from /usr/share/xsessions, without any action from me:

$ ls -la /usr/share/xsessions
total 32
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096  2 oct.  21:00 .
drwxr-xr-x 313 root root 12288  3 oct.  19:35 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   198 20 févr.  2016 openbox.desktop
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   198 20 févr.  2016 openbox-kde.desktop
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root    37 25 oct.   2015 xterm
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root   136 25 oct.   2015 xterm.desktop

What can I do to bring it back?

Fixxer

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From: Poland

Registered: 2011-08-29

Posts: 233

Re: MATE disappeared from my desktop environments on LightDM

Install (reinstall) pacakge mate-session-manager.

Check what could happen with the package:

grep mate-session-manager /var/log/pacman.log

Last edited by Fixxer (2016-10-03 21:53:49)

Deuchnord

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From: France

Registered: 2015-04-04

Posts: 17

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Re: MATE disappeared from my desktop environments on LightDM

Install (reinstall) pacakge mate-session-manager.

Check what could happen with the package:

grep mate-session-manager /var/log/pacman.log

Thanks!

The package was indeed uninstalled. When I looked at the log you suggested, it looks like it had been removed Sunday, when I ran `yaourt -Qdt` in order to remove the unneeded dependencies.
Perhaps I used Yaourt badly?