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KoRn2012

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[SOLVED] Mate won't start on lightdm.

Hi,
I used arch now 3 months with gnome, and now I want to switch to mate. I installed mate mate-extra lightdm and lightdm-gtk-greeter. I can login, but even after changing the /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf it always starts gnome.

Last edited by KoRn2012 (2026-04-25 19:18:45)

Magrid

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Re: [SOLVED] Mate won't start on lightdm.

Hi, if you're using lightdm-gtk-greeter then I think you might be editing the wrong configuration file, you should be editing /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf or use the settings gui.

For more information take a look at:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/LightDM

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Re: [SOLVED] Mate won't start on lightdm.

Specifically https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/LightD … lt_session and https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/LightD … _autologin if you're abusing lightdm to autologin to a session or otherwise cannot control the session using the greeter GUI.

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KoRn2012

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Re: [SOLVED] Mate won't start on lightdm.

Thanks. that really helped me!