Ubuntu
gdm package

  1. Karmic (9.10)
  2. Bug #398300
  3. Comment #15

Comment 15 for bug 398300

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Tore Anderson (toreanderson) wrote : Re: The new gdm doesn't give an option to use .xsession

I'm also bitten by this bug - after an upgrade to Karmic the ~/.xsession script isn't read anymore and my htpc user is auto-logged in straight into GNOME.

Tried to make files in /usr/share/xsessions that launched /etc/gdm/Xsession (or "/etc/gdm/Xsession custom") and also updated my ~/.dmrc to refer to the new session, but it still didn't work and I was logged straight into GNOME (and for some reason ~/.dmrc was reset to the "default" session).

My (admittedly dirty) solution was:

cp ~/.xsession /etc/gdm/Xsession
chmod a+x /etc/gdm/Xsession

Tore