Sorry for the bugspam.... I looked around a bit and found out that indeed gnome-screensaver did not run *yet*. After login, it took more than half a minute until gnome- screensaver actually started. Gnome-panel has already fully loaded at this time. So the problem still exists, however it seems not to be _that_ critical any more.
But the use case remains: In the morning, Christof starts his computer and logs in. He launches some programs using the launchers on the gnome-panel which already loaded. His girlfriend -- bringing freshly brewed coffee -- wants to check her mail. Christof agrees (the coffee is all he focuses on at the moment) and clicks on "switch user". Unfortunately, gnome-screensaver was even sleepier than Christof was (delayed further by the increased load resulting from starting multiple applications) and did not start up yet. Now, Christof's session idles around, fully unprotected. Fortunately, this story has a happy end: Christof's girlfriend does not know how to switch consoles or to kill the x-server. Above example is not too uncommon because it already happened to me several times. This is the reason I've searched for the bug report in the first place. Just for the record: My PC is an Athlon XP running with 1.7Ghz having 1024MB RAM available. -- Switching back to an user account needs no password https://launchpad.net/bugs/89219 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
