Re: [gdm-list] GDM patch to make user switching able to pre-select user

[Robert Ancell <robert ancell canonical com>]

Thanks for that, I've made a patch here:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=606923

Ray Strode wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   
> > My questions are:
> > 1. Is there any reason why a Display should not have a GetSession() method?
> >     
> Displays are managed by the display factory in the gdm-binary process,
> each session is managed by its slave in a gdm-simple-slave process.
> The display is what starts the slave process, but it doesn't know
> specifically what session the slave is running.
>
>   
> > 2. Is there an easy way to get the greeter object for a Display?
> >     
> The greeter is managed by the slave, like the session is.
>
> One idea is, pass the username to CreateTransientDisplay, and pass
> that along to the slave when running the slave for that display.  The
> slave would then pass it along to the greeter.
>
> Make sense?
>
> --Ray
>