From d724281718337add5be01bbddbcc5075ea81fd8c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Konrad Bucheli Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2023 12:34:13 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] show where default session manager is stored --- rhel8/desktop.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/rhel8/desktop.md b/rhel8/desktop.md index 0aac84ea..d3c87969 100644 --- a/rhel8/desktop.md +++ b/rhel8/desktop.md @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ Per default Puppet starts `gdm` which then starts Gnome with `Xorg` using `/usr/ Normally the Display Managers offer the user to select one of the available Desktop Sessions (`*.desktop` files in `/usr/share/wayland-sessions/` and `/usr/share/xsessions/`). This has been disabled as normally at the PSI this is more set per system and not per user. -In Hiera the actual Desktop Session to be started can be selected/overriden by setting the `desktop::session_manager` to one of the `.desktop` files in above listed directories. Set it e.g. to `gnome-wayland` to test `Wayland`. +In Hiera the actual Desktop Session to be started can be selected/overriden by setting the `desktop::session_manager` to one of the `.desktop` files in above listed directories. Set it e.g. to `gnome-wayland` to test `Wayland`. It will then end up as default session manager in `/etc/accountsservice/user-templates/standard`. Note when changing the default Session Manager, previous users will still get the one they used before. To reset that, you need to delete - `/var/lib/AccountsService/users/*` (for `gdm`)