The fast user switch applet is obsolete and no longer supported.
** Changed in: gdm (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Invalid
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/326916
Title:
Fast-user-switch-applet doesn't work with multiseat
Status in GDM: The Gnome Display Manager:
Incomplete
Status in “gdm” package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Bug description:
Binary package hint: fast-user-switch-applet
I have configured multiseat / multiterminal on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy using
following FAQ
http://wpkg.org/Configuring_multiseat_X_workstation
and it works like a charm with one exception and that is fast user
switching. My configuration is 2 NVidia Geforce2 MX cards (one AGP,
one PCI) with nvidia proprietary driver and two Microsoft Wireless
Optical Desktop sets (wireless mouse and keyboard) both hooked up via
USB. The only problem I have encountered is that fast-user-switching
applet always lock the terminal when somebody uses it.
If user is logged in and he clicks on his name to see the pulldown
menu with user list and clicks on another name in the list then the
screen turns black and nothing else can be done on that terminal. The
only recourse is from the other terminal to kill the Xorg process of
the logged in user or restart computer.
If use clicks on the System->Quit->Switch user then a popup dialog
appears to select "X server to start". This means the switching of
users is not aware of multiterminal since it should just switch in the
current X server. If I even select the correct X server I get to the
Login screen (in my case with user chooser where I see name of users
and I see that there is a logged in user on this terminal) but the
terminal is frozen and user cannot choose another user, cannot type
password and cannot even switch back to the same user which is already
logged in.
Please let me know if there is any information which would help you in
solving this issue. I would be very happy to provide it to you and
help troubleshooting. I am very happy with my multiterminal setup and
it was extremely easy to get it working but the only way to currently
use it for multiple users is that user has to always log out before
another user can log in .
Also since there is no option to disable user switching (see the
following bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-system-
tools/+bug/185599) and no option to gracefully logout user by another
user, if users are distracted or they are not educated that the user
switching doesn't work, it is very easy to lock up the terminal which
requires to kill the xorg process or restart the computer.
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