gnome-session

No obvious way to log out when user switching disabled

Bug #450354 reported by Shahar Or on 2009-10-13

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gnome-session	Unknown	Medium	gnome-bugs #598270
	fast-user-switch-applet (Ubuntu)	Won't Fix	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-session

Dear friends,

If the key /desktop/gnome/lockdown/disable_user_switching is true, then the User Switcher applet seems to be not allowed, thus presenting the user with no obvious way to logout or shutdown, etc.

Perhaps it would be better that setting this key true would not disallow the User Switcher completely, but only remove the User Switching functionality from it (and from the desktop in general) and let it remain as a log out/shutdown/restart/etc. button.

Blessings.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: gnome-session 2.26.0svn20090408-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
LANG=he_IL.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-session
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-15-generic i686

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Shahar Or (mightyiam) wrote on 2009-10-13:

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Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) wrote on 2009-10-13:

Thanks, but that isn't anything to do with gnome-session, but rather the old fast-user-switch-applet. Our gnome-panel has a distro-patch to hide the session options from the menu when the FUSA is present, and the FUSA applet hides completely when disabling user switching.

The FUSA has been replaced in Karmic with indicator-session, which doesn't have this issue