Re: [Vlad Harchev <hvv hippo ru>] problem with session management ingnome-1.4beta1

[Lee Mallabone <lee fonicmonkey net>]

Vlad Harchev wrote:

> On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Glynn Foster wrote:
> > The --choose-session=ARG is really designed for remote displays. Actually
> > it would be nice to be able to select a session to load from gdm, but
> > that's not a beta issue ;)
>
> That's only 10 lines
> of shell code, that will bring us that flexibility, without the need for
> hacking any desktop manager. What do you think about this?

Is there a (clean) C interface for querying the list of named sessions, 
given a username/uid? If so, I think this is fairly trivial to add to 
gdmlogin. I think a panel popping up to the right of the user/password 
prompt with a list of all named sessions would work as a good user 
interface.

This is something I'll gladly hack on if someone points me at the code 
for retrieving session names...

Cheers,

Lee.