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[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> So, to conclude, I'm not sure what it is you would write in that bug
report.

Just as a heads up: Restoring session still does not work in lightdm.
And, as for all arguments that speak for accounts-service-daemon, the
fact remains that switching from .dmrc to a-s-d broke session save and
restore for many corporate users.

It's super easy to reproduce if you have two computers on a network with
a shared home directory:

- user A logs in to machine "host001", chooses MATE and en_US.UTF-8 as their defaults
- user A logs out
- user A logs into machine "host002" and neither MATE or en_US.UTF-8 are restored as settings but some random settings which depend on who previously logged into the machine and what user A's settings were last time logging in to "host002"

All of this worked fine previously when using ~/.dmrc and is still
broken after switching to a-s-d. This really needs to be fixed and if
the concept of a-s-d is supposed to be kept, then a-s-d should be able
to store it's database settings across different host with the same
shared home directory.

Adrian

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/823718

Title:
  Replace ~/.dmrc with AccountsService

Status in Light Display Manager:
  Fix Released
Status in lightdm package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in lightdm source package in Oneiric:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  While gdm has switched to AccountsService for storing the session
  type, lightdm stores that piece of info in ~/.dmrc. I suppose it would
  be a good idea that also lightdm makes use of AccountsService for the
  purpose, and drops ~/.dmrc entirely. That way would always the same
  option appear on the greeter if a user moves from gdm to lightdm or
  vice versa.

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