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Add the possibility to switch users (without logging out)
Status:
RESOLVED: FIXED
Priority:
Medium
Severity:
enhancement
Product:
Xfce4-session
Component:
General

Comments

Description gedeon13 2007-01-25 09:16:08 CET 
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20060601 Firefox/2.0.0.1 (Ubuntu-edgy)
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For now, XFCE doesn't do well in a multiple user environment.

What is lacking is the ability to login as another user without logging out the current user. And of course, the system should provide a way to re-log to the first user's session.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 gedeon13 2007-01-25 09:17:51 CET 
Btw: having a fast user-switching applet (panel plugin) would be a plus but clearly not as important.
Comment 2 Benedikt Meurer editbugs 2007-01-25 10:01:41 CET 
GDM can do that, even without explicit support from Xfce (IIRC). I don't have GDM installed, but I remember there was a command that spawned a new X server with a new greeter window.
Comment 3 gedeon13 2007-01-25 11:06:56 CET 
After some poking around I found gdmflexiserver does what I need (thanks for the pointer!). I simply made a launcher to have a fast access to it. So it's ok for me now, but IMHO it still should be still be better integrated with the desktop. For example, by presenting an additional choice "switch user" when ending a session.
Comment 4 Benedikt Meurer editbugs 2007-01-25 12:10:08 CET 
Feel free to contribute a patch. ;-)
Comment 5 gedeon13 2007-01-28 14:43:15 CET 
It's unlikely I will, since I don't know a thing about XFCE internals and I have no "real" incentive to "fix" it anymore since thanks to you, I can do what I need.
Comment 6 Nick Schermer editbugs 2010-11-15 23:42:24 CET 
Reassign to xfce-bugs@xfce.org.
Comment 7 Delmir 2012-10-27 18:46:34 CEST 
There are many bugs related to this topic. How can we combine them all?

Also, as mentioned on another thread...

...switching via the LightDM DBus interface org.freedesktop.DisplayManager...

seems to be a much better option since it doesn't rely on Gnome.
Comment 8 Jérôme Guelfucci editbugs 2012-11-07 10:17:38 CET 
*** Bug 9380 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 9 Jérôme Guelfucci editbugs 2012-11-07 10:19:36 CET 
*** Bug 9352 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 10 Eric Koegel editbugs 2016-06-05 18:48:08 CEST 
Added in:
commit a3a388b3568b07de2c4ddeb23da663f2ea623499
Author: Eric Koegel <eric.koegel@gmail.com>
Date:   Sun Apr 24 07:53:07 2016 +0300

    Add a switch user button to the logout dialog (Bug #10345)
    
    If the display manager provides the org.freedesktop.DisplayManager
    dbus API with the SwitchToGreeter call, the switch to user button
    will show up on the logout dialog.
http://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-session/commit/?id=a3a388b3568b07de2c4ddeb23da663f2ea623499

Bug #2819

Reported by:
gedeon13
Reported on: 2007-01-25
Last modified on: 2016-06-05
Duplicates (2):
  • 9352 xfce4-session-manager should offer user switching
  • 9380 Multi-user on XFCE4 only systems (without Gnome dependencies)

People

Assignee:
Xfce Bug Triage
CC List:
5 users

Version

Version:
4.6.0
Target Milestone:
Xfce 4.6

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