Ubuntu
gdm3 package

No gear icon to select session type

Bug #2019983 reported by Coeur Noir
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Bug Description

Hi,

be it under Wayland or X11 ;

login-screen does not show the gear icon at bottom right of the screen
for choosing session type ;

hence I had to « force » it through /etc/gdm3/custom.conf

It's a freshly installed 23.04 from https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/lunar/release/ubuntu-23.04-desktop-legacy-amd64.iso

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 23.04
Package: gdm3 44.0-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.2.0-20.20-generic 6.2.6
Uname: Linux 6.2.0-20-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.26.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Wed May 17 17:29:39 2023
InstallationDate: Installed on 2023-05-16 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 23.04 "Lunar Lobster" - Release amd64 (20230417)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 TERM=xterm-256color
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
SourcePackage: gdm3
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
mtime.conffile..etc.gdm3.custom.conf: 2023-05-17T16:46:12.733575

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Coeur Noir (coeur-noir) wrote :
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Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote :

Open the Settings app.
Switch to the About screen.
Please copy and paste what shows up there on the Graphics line.

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Coeur Noir (coeur-noir) wrote :

Intel® HD Graphics 4600 (HSW GT2)

But I think I found my mistake :

I had added to my /etc/environment

MESA_LOADER_DRIVER_OVERRIDE=i965

Since I removed some things work better :

⋅ the gear icon show up on login screen ;
⋅ windows and gnome-shell animations are back

but, there's always a but, first launch of Firefox leads to a black window,
probably related to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1828161

tl;dr

in Ubuntu 23.04 don't add MESA_LOADER_DRIVER_OVERRIDE=i965 to /etc/environment

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Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote :

The Firefox issue has a fix in lunar-proposed. See https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mutter/44.0-2ubuntu4.23.04.1

Based on your latest comment, I'm closing this bug. Thank you for taking the time to help make Ubuntu better.

Changed in gdm3 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
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