Re: behavioral change in gnome-shell gnome-3-16 branch.

[Hussam Al-Tayeb <hussam visp net lb>]

On Mon, 2015-08-03 at 09:59 -0400, Ray Strode wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > Previously if I was logged and I ctrl+alt+f1, gdm would offer to
> > unlock
> > my session. This was misleading since my session was not really
> > locked.
> > I could ctrl+alt+f3 and continue working.
> So would you like the screen to automatically lock if the user
> switches away from the current VT? I can see how that would be more
> secure, but also might get frustrating for a single user who's using
> tty's and switching back and forth a lot.  See also Owen's mail to
> desktop-devel-list
> about making gnome easier to debug and develop for.  So not sure...
>
> > But if I log on to the same user, it terminates the existing
> > session
> > and starts a new one without telling me that it terminated the old
> > session.
> > Is this intentional?
> Definitely not intentional, it's a bug.  I've filed it here:
>
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=753181
>
> Thanks.
I was thinking of the following:
If I ctrl+alt+f1 and click on Hussam user, gdm checks if it is locked.
If not, it changes the 'unlock' text to 'switch to this user' or
something and offers to let me back in without a password.
But this neglects cases where the my session may have gone idle in the
meantime (do two xorg/gnome sessions have separate idle timers?) and
got locked anyway so it may not be a good approach.