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How do I change the default session for when using auto-logins?

I don't like unity much. I have no trouble to log out and log back in with gnome, but if I reboot my computer it goes back into unity by default. How can I make gnome default instead?

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The possible duplicate doesn't mention gnome shell, so Anarci's answer here is more appropriate. – belacqua Oct 23 '11 at 23:39
Yes, I also never would have found it on the search because I had no idea what LightDM is. – wim Oct 24 '11 at 5:35
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To change the default Session in Lightdm

sudo /usr/lib/lightdm/lightdm-set-defaults --session gnome-shell
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Thanks, I actually wanted gnome shell, but I found it with sudo /usr/lib/lightdm/lightdm-set-defaults --session gnome-shell – wim Oct 23 '11 at 13:09
no problem. I couldn't test it but the documentation I foudn suggested gnome for 'gnome-shell'. Did passing gnome for session give an error? Then I should edit my answer – Anarci Oct 23 '11 at 14:16
no, but it went into the old gnome 2. – wim Oct 23 '11 at 23:24
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I edited '/etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf' to this content:

[SeatDefaults]
greeter-session=unity-greeter
user-session=gnome-shell
autologin-user=paul

and it starts automatically to gnome-shell :)

Regards

Paul

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