Bug#638353: gdm3: This is also a problem when using GDM3 with XFCE

[Andreas Neudecker]

Package: gdm3
Version: 3.0.4-4
Followup-For: Bug #638353

Dear Maintainer,

I am using GDM3 with XFCE and currently have no GNOME installed. How
then am I supposed to select the session language if not in GDM3? And I
do have users using different languages so a system-wide setup will not
help. As I have already reported with bug #648220 GDM3 also doesn't
honour previous session's selection. After what you mentioned above
about /var/lib/AccountsService/users/$user I get the impression that
GDM3 doesn't evaluate or use the settings in that file. In that case
both bugs might be related and could be merged.

Kind regards

Andreas



-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gdm3 depends on:
ii  accountsservice                             0.6.15-1
ii  adduser                                     3.113
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend                     0.7.5-3
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]                       1.5.40
ii  gconf2                                      2.32.4-1
ii  gnome-session [x-session-manager]           3.0.2-3
ii  gnome-session-bin                           3.0.2-3
ii  gnome-session-fallback [x-session-manager]  3.0.2-3
ii  gnome-terminal [x-terminal-emulator]        3.0.1-1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas                   3.0.1-1
ii  libaccountsservice0                         0.6.15-1
ii  libatk1.0-0                                 2.2.0-2
ii  libattr1                                    1:2.4.46-3
ii  libaudit0                                   1.7.18-1
ii  libc6                                       2.13-21
ii  libcairo-gobject2                           1.10.2-6.1
ii  libcairo2                                   1.10.2-6.1
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0                          0.28-3
ii  libcanberra0                                0.28-3
ii  libdbus-1-3                                 1.4.16-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2                            0.98-1
ii  libfontconfig1                              2.8.0-3
ii  libfreetype6                                2.4.7-2
ii  libgconf2-4                                 2.32.4-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                          2.24.0-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                2.28.8-1
ii  libglib2.0-bin                              2.28.8-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                                  3.0.12-2
ii  libpam-modules                              1.1.3-4
ii  libpam-runtime                              1.1.3-4
ii  libpam0g                                    1.1.3-4
ii  libpango1.0-0                               1.29.4-2
ii  librsvg2-common                             2.34.1-3
ii  libselinux1                                 2.1.0-4
ii  libupower-glib1                             0.9.14-1
ii  libwrap0                                    7.6.q-21
ii  libx11-6                                    2:1.4.4-2
ii  libxau6                                     1:1.0.6-3
ii  libxdmcp6                                   1:1.1.0-3
ii  libxklavier16                               5.1-2
ii  libxrandr2                                  2:1.3.2-2
ii  lsb-base                                    3.2-28
ii  metacity [x-window-manager]                 1:2.34.1-2
ii  mutter [x-window-manager]                   3.0.2.1-4
ii  policykit-1-gnome                           0.102-2
ii  twm [x-window-manager]                      1:1.0.6-1
ii  upower                                      0.9.14-1
ii  xfce4-session [x-session-manager]           4.8.2-1
ii  xfce4-terminal [x-terminal-emulator]        0.4.8-1
ii  xfwm4 [x-window-manager]                    4.8.2-1
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emulator]                 276-1

Versions of packages gdm3 recommends:
ii  at-spi                 1.32.0-1
ii  desktop-base           6.0.7
ii  gnome-icon-theme       3.2.1.2-1
ii  gnome-power-manager    3.0.2-3
ii  gnome-settings-daemon  3.0.3-3
ii  x11-xkb-utils          7.6+4
ii  xserver-xephyr         2:1.11.1.901-2
ii  xserver-xorg           1:7.6+9
ii  zenity                 3.2.0-1

Versions of packages gdm3 suggests:
ii  gnome-mag             <none>
ii  gnome-orca            <none>
ii  gok                   <none>
ii  libpam-gnome-keyring  3.0.3-2
ii  metacity              1:2.34.1-2

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/gdm3/greeter.gconf-defaults changed:
/apps/gdm/simple-greeter/logo_icon_name 	debian-swirl
/apps/gdm/simple-greeter/banner_message_enable		false
/apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list		true
/apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager		false
/apps/gnome-power-manager/ui/icon_policy		never


-- debconf information:
* shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm3
  gdm3/daemon_name: /usr/sbin/gdm3