Re: fast user switching
- From: Mark Finlay <sisob tuxfamily org>
- To: Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>
- Cc: desktop-devel-list gnome org, isaac sindominio net
- Subject: Re: fast user switching
- Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 11:04:57 +0000
oh and here is another but related to my ideas:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127038
On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 21:31, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> Hi
>
> The other day, when giving a tutorial on GTK, I started a fast user
> switching applet. I didn't come too far away, except for adding the 'New
> login' menu item to the applet's menu.
>
> Today, talking on IRC with Mark, he suggested having it in
> Actions->Switch user, and have that run gdmflexiserver. I did that (was
> really easy), but the problem is that this only works for opening new
> sessions, but not for switching to an existing session.
>
> So, how could this be implemented? I guess the Actions menu is the right
> place for it, but instead of opening a new gdm login, it should probably
> display a dialog that allows the user to either switch to an existing
> login, or create a new session (in which case, the normal gdmflexiserver
> will be run).
>
> That's how I see it right now, that gdmflexiserver, who knows, AFAIK,
> which users are logged in, can have a --show-chooser (or whatever)
> command line argument that would make it display that dialog.
>
> Mark has other ideas, so please Mark, tell us :-)
>
> Any other thougts?
>
> cheers
>
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