Comment 51 for bug 88152

On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 12:33 +0000, Jeremy Visser wrote:
> Ralf, no point in hiding the applet, seeing as though it doesn't let you
> switch users with yourself. Go and have a look — with only one user on
> the system, you click it, and the only dropdown menu item that pops up
> is your own name, which is disabled.
>
> I'm talking about a multi-user system with all the users running Compiz.
> When trying to switch users, the system appears to lock up. (I know it's
> not _really_ a lockup, and a kill -9 on compiz will fix it, but it's
> undesirable nonetheless.)
>

my experience is that often, it's impossible to enter kill -9 even on a
console, so unless you have another machine and ssh, you're out of luck.

matt

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Matt Price
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University of Toronto
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