Bug#770615: mate-session-manager: Switching users don't work with MATE and Lightdm

Sat Nov 22 17:32:45 UTC 2014

On 11/22/2014 06:04 PM, Frederic MASSOT wrote:
> In .xsession-errors file I have this message:
> 
> ** (gdmflexiserver:19422): WARNING **: Unable to create transient display: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.gnome.DisplayManager was not provided by any .service files
> GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.gnome.DisplayManager was not provided by any .service files

Did you try using gdm3 instead of lightdm?

I'm not sure whether user switching would actually work at all at the
moment since MATE hasn't been ported to support logind yet.

Adrian

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