Set Mate as default Desktop?

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cb474

Re: Set Mate as default Desktop?

Post by cb474 »

That gets me into a Mate session. But as noted above, if I run that command without "mate-session" X does not default to Mate, it runs Cinnamon instead.
kukamuumuka

Re: Set Mate as default Desktop?

Post by kukamuumuka »

cb474 wrote: Mon Sep 17, 2018 3:18 am That gets me into a Mate session. But as noted above, if I run that command without "mate-session" X does not default to Mate, it runs Cinnamon instead.
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2245261
OK, I've found the seat of this problem. I disabled /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/60-lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf, which is the configuration file which specifies the gtk greeter; the system then reverts to the Unity greeter. Problem solved! The default session for a newly-created user is now xfce, as desired.

So the bug, if there is one, is in lightdm-gtk-greeter and not in lightdm itself.
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