Switching to normal desktop and back to nbr disabled user-switching

[Markus Birth]

Two days ago, I tried desktop-switcher in Jaunty on my Netbook and switched from nbr to normal desktop and back. After that, the fast-user-switching-applet was missing in my panel in nbr mode. Switching to normal desktop brought it back but it was still missing after switching back to nbr.

Now after some search I found out that desktop-switcher somehow set the desktop/gnome/lockdown/disable_user_switching to TRUE which caused the FUSA to hide itself. Since I didn't have this option enabled before, it should not be set when switching desktop modes.

I also reported the problem there: https://bugs.launchpad.net/netbook-remix-launcher/+bug/326341

[Neil J. Patel (njpatel)]

Thanks for reporting this bug. The reason desktop-switcher disables fast-user-switching is that most Xorg drivers do not support opengl acceleration on anything but the first screen. This means that the user which logged in using fast-user-switching will have terrible launcher /desktop performance. The system basically becomes unusable.

How does it work on your hardware?

[Paul Larson (pwlars)]

This bug has been moved to Ubuntu distribution.

[Paul Larson (pwlars)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for desktop-switcher (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]