Wednesday, October 23, 2013

How to set default user session in >=gdm-3-8

Gnome Display Manager has removed the feature of setting a user's default session choice in ~/.dmrc.

Instead, the session choice is stored in /var/lib/AccountService/users/

Each user should have a file, and the XSession= key should correlate to a .desktop file in /usr/share/xsessions.

Here's a complete file setting xfce to be the preferred desktop for the user.

[User]
Language=
XSession=xfce
SystemAccount=false

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