Premature lock when launching guest session
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Session Menu |
Won't Fix
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
indicator-session (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: indicator-session
When you launch a guest session via the menu item provided by indicator-session, indicator-session locks the regular session before calling /usr/share/
So why do I bother? The reason is that I have explored various possibilities to customize the guest session behavior, and one of the ideas is to let the regular user select the guest session language on-the-fly. But if I add such code to the top of guest-session-
I believe that the activate_
Related branches
- Indicator Applet Developers: Pending requested
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Diff: 12 lines (+1/-1)1 file modifiedsrc/session-service.c (+1/-1)
- Ken VanDine: Pending requested
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Diff: 201 lines (+75/-13)7 files modifiedChangeLog (+44/-0)
configure (+1/-1)
configure.ac (+1/-1)
debian/changelog (+9/-0)
src/apt-transaction.c (+0/-1)
src/apt-watcher.c (+2/-1)
src/settings-helper.c (+18/-9)
tags: | added: patch |
Changed in indicator-session (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
Changed in indicator-session: | |
status: | New → In Progress |
Changed in indicator-session: | |
status: | In Progress → Opinion |
Changed in indicator-session (Ubuntu): | |
status: | In Progress → Opinion |
Changed in indicator-session: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
Changed in indicator-session: | |
status: | Confirmed → Opinion |
Changed in indicator-session (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Opinion |
Changed in indicator-session: | |
status: | In Progress → Triaged |
Changed in indicator-session: | |
status: | Triaged → Won't Fix |
no longer affects: | gdm-guest-session (Ubuntu) |
Changed in indicator-session (Ubuntu): | |
status: | In Progress → Won't Fix |
I guess I disagree with your assessment. I think that indicator-session *should* lock the screen and guest-session should not as it doesn't do things like check the gconf key for whether the screen should be locked at all.
Now, that being said. I'd be happy with a patch that added a configurable dialog in indicator-session for selecting the language. I think that'd be pretty cool.