Problem with lightdm (? on debian #25
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I installed mate-wayland-session using autools, and although the MATE.desktop file is in /usr/local/share/wayland-sessions, it doesn't appear in lightdm. Wayfire does appear, located in /usr/share/wayland-sessions. Copying the MATE.desktop file from one location to another seems to work. |
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I had to stop using lightdm at the time I developed the wayland session as it did not support wayland sessions at
that time or such support was broken. No idea if that has ever been fixed. The session is known to work under
SDDM, which is what I now use and suggest
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You probably need to build with |
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You probably need to build with
--prefix=/usrin your build options for system-installed display managers to find it. There are lots of things now that don't look in /usr/local for things like they are supposed to. If you want to keep local builds out of your main filesystem try a symlink or (as you've found works) just moving the file. Nice to hear Lightdm now works with wayland sessions