Newly created users are not added to the menu until next login

[Sune Keller]

Adding a new user using the "Users and Groups" Administration tool does not add the user to the fast user switch part of the Session Menu until it is reloaded (for most users this would be by logging out and back in, or even restarting).

It would be nice to be able to switch straight to the newly created user without having to click the "Switch from ..." and, on systems not supporting KMS, waiting unnecessarily for the greeter to appear.

[Sune Keller (sune-keller)]

This appears to be fixed in 11.04.

[Sune Keller (sune-keller)]

i.e.

$ apt-cache policy indicator-session
indicator-session:
  Installed: 0.2.17-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.2.17-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.2.17-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

works for me.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package indicator-session - 0.3.3-0ubuntu1

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indicator-session (0.3.3-0ubuntu1) oneiric; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
    - User menu should still show even if there is only 1 user (LP: #831758)
    - Bluetooth item in menu not needed (LP: #825111)
    - Newly created users are not added to the menu until next
      login (LP: #552048)
    - Users list in shutdown menu is not updated on user
      deletion (LP: #557608)
    - should use gsettings rather than gconf (LP: #656323)
  * debian/control
    - Bump dbusmenu build dep to >= 0.4.92
 -- Ken VanDine <email address hidden> Thu, 25 Aug 2011 08:58:56 -0400