Bug#743401: gnome-session: there is no session name mate while trying to login

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

On 02/04/14 13:53, shirish शिरीष wrote:
> Package: gnome-session
> Version: 3.8.4-3
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> I would like to try mate but gnome-session or/and gdm3 doesn't show
> mate as a choice.
> 
> Looking at /usr/share/gnome-session/sessions I see the following choices only :-
> 
> /usr/share/gnome-session/sessions$ ls
> cinnamon2d.session  gdm-shell.session      gnome-flashback.session
> openbox-gnome-fallback.session
> cinnamon.session    gnome-classic.session  gnome.session
> openbox-gnome.session
> 
> shouldn't there be a mate-gnome.session as well ? I don't know if the
> bug is in gnome-session, gdm3 or mate itself. It would be nice if
> people could tell who's the culprit and re-direct if gdm3 is not at
> fault.
> 
> Looking forward to understand.

Some mate package (e.g. mate-session) should provide a session file. If none
does, please reassign this bug to mate.

Emilio