When I select GNOME I get 2 dropdowns

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When I select GNOME I get 2 dropdowns #19

Closed carl03q closed 5 years ago

carl03q commented 7 years ago

I have GNOME, i3 and xfce and when I choose GNOME it appears a second dropdrown menu.

NoiSek commented 7 years ago

If there are multiple options for the same environment, it's generally due to an undisclosed rendering difference (software v. hardware rendering) or duplicate .desktop files being present.

You should try running sudo find . -name "*.desktop" from root to see if you have any extraneous session definitions.

ghost commented 6 years ago

What I did is I renamed /usr/share/wayland-sessions/ to /usr/share/wayland-sessions.old/. This removed the second dropdown list and I can still launch Gnome on Wayland since there is the file gnome.session in /usr/share/xsessions/ that launches it. The main problem is that there are to gnome.session files in the system so Display Managers don't have a problem launching Gnome.

P.S. I know this is an old issue but I though that many new users might encounter this problem :)