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[Bug 772486] Re: [Natty] Unity will start from GDM, not from KDM

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From: Donald Thompson <772486@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2011 21:54:59 -0000
Reply-to: Bug 772486 <772486@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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I did some more playing around with this and I found my GDMSESSION
variable is set to "default". If I add:

export GDMSESSION="$DESKTOP_SESSION"

if [ "$GDMSESSION" = "default" ] ; then
        export GDMSESSION=gnome
fi

then Unity will start correctly. It doesn't seem to cause any problems if the session type is changed prior to login either. 
I'm not sure why just 'export GDMSESSION="$DESKTOP_SESSION"' doesn't work for me, but I've tested this over several 11.04 x86_64 installs now using a clean (no data/config in the $HOME directory) account.

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  [Natty] Unity will start from GDM, not from KDM

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