From: Balló György <ballogyor@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2025 17:42:21 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: loginDialog: Sort session list by name
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loginDialog: Sort session list by name

Instead of sorting the available sessions by their ID, sort them by their
name. This ensures that the list is sorted based on the system locale.

Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/3920>
(cherry picked from commit b86fc53821169313dc6bfe9985902d5e84397010)
---

diff --git a/js/gdm/loginDialog.js b/js/gdm/loginDialog.js
index 26966b633..1b568cbde 100644
--- a/js/gdm/loginDialog.js
+++ b/js/gdm/loginDialog.js
@@ -385,17 +385,20 @@ const SessionMenuButton = GObject.registerClass({
 
     _populate() {
         let ids = Gdm.get_session_ids();
-        ids.sort();
 
         if (ids.length <= 1) {
             this._button.hide();
             return;
         }
 
-        for (let i = 0; i < ids.length; i++) {
-            let [sessionName, sessionDescription_] = Gdm.get_session_name_and_description(ids[i]);
+        const sessions = ids.map(id => {
+            const [sessionName] = Gdm.get_session_name_and_description(id);
+            return {id, sessionName};
+        });
+
+        sessions.sort((a, b) => a.sessionName.localeCompare(b.sessionName));
 
-            let id = ids[i];
+        for (const {id, sessionName} of sessions) {
             let item = new PopupMenu.PopupMenuItem(sessionName);
             this._menu.addMenuItem(item);
             this._items.set(id, item);