We have added a postlogin script to check if you use the autologin, if you don't use this feature automatically, we removed the annoying issue of the double shell: one is your user and other is gdm user ( zombie shell ) WARNING(!) the autologin not work with this applied see here for more info. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=782832 If you don't want this simply comment (#) the line into /etc/gdm/PostLogin/Default like this #grep -q \"^AutomaticLoginEnable=True\" /etc/gdm/custom.conf || pkill -KILL -u gdm Manjaro Team