Re: fast user switching

[Mark Finlay <sisob tuxfamily org>]

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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