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"Not running inside a display manager, XDG_SEAT_PATH not defined" without giving a clue on how to set XDG_SEAT_PATH #27

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tpo opened this issue Jun 25, 2018 · 1 comment · Fixed by #28
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"Not running inside a display manager, XDG_SEAT_PATH not defined" without giving a clue on how to set XDG_SEAT_PATH #27

tpo opened this issue Jun 25, 2018 · 1 comment · Fixed by #28

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tpo commented Jun 25, 2018

Today I was greeted by the "This screen is locked. It will be unlocked in a second" screen that would in fact not go away in a second nor in two seconds.

So I switched to a text console, did a ps faux, saw lightdm, man lightdm, saw "SEE ALSO" dm-tool, did man dm-tool, saw the various dm-tool commands and did:

# dm-tool switch-to-greeter
Not running inside a display manager, XDG_SEAT_PATH not defined

Yeah, however how should I know what to set XDG_SEAT_PATH to for heaven's sake? man dm-tool doesn't mention it, nor does man lightdm. What gives?
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document the XDG_SEAT_PATH environment variable
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Fixes: canonical#27
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tpo commented Jun 25, 2018

Pull request #28 documents the XDG_SEAT_PATH environment variable

robert-ancell pushed a commit that referenced this issue Jun 25, 2018
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document the XDG_SEAT_PATH environment variable
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Fixes: #27
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follower added a commit to follower/lightdm that referenced this issue Nov 30, 2020
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Fix: "DesktopManager" -> "DisplayManager"
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Based on what worked for me; and, uses within this repo, the correct path seems to include "DisplayManager" not "DesktopManager".

Originally added via canonical#28 in order to address canonical#27.
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Fix: "DesktopManager" -> "DisplayManager"
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Based on what worked for me; and, uses within this repo, the correct path seems to include "DisplayManager" not "DesktopManager".

Originally added via #28 in order to address #27.
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