Bug 166985

Summary:	When selecting Leave and then Switch User in the kde menu there is no list of users but instead a run dialog is shown
Product:	[Unmaintained] plasma4	Reporter:	Rik <rfe.gen>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	danxuliu, rdieter
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Rik 2008-07-19 11:50:36 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.0.5)
Installed from:    Fedora RPMs
Compiler:          gcc version 4.3.0 20080428 (Red Hat 4.3.0-8) (GCC) x86_64-redhat-linux Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-bugurl=http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla --enable-bootstrap --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --enable-checking=release --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,obj-c++,java,fortran,ada --enable-java-awt=gtk --disable-dssi --enable-plugin --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-1.5.0.0/jre --enable-libgcj-multifile --enable-java-maintainer-mode --with-ecj-jar=/usr/share/java/eclipse-ecj.jar --disable-libjava-multilib --with-cpu=generic --build=x86_64-redhat-linux Thread model: posix
OS:                Linux

I was used to having more than one KDE sessions for several users open at one time with KDE / FC7. When I needed to login to another session I used 'Switch User' and after that I could witch between the open sessions by pressing [ctrl][alt][f7] or [ctrl][alt][f8] and so on...

With KDE / FC9 I cant even login to a second session because I do not get a login menu when selecting 'Leave' and then 'Switch User' in the KDE menu. Instead I get a run dialog with the title 'Switch User' but no other suggestion as how to select another session or user.

Comment 1 Christophe Marin 2008-07-20 14:57:57 UTC

*** Bug 167024 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Rik 2008-07-20 19:10:56 UTC

Can someone please explain what the consequences of changing Severity from 'normal' to 'wishlist' are ??? 

Or maybe even better... send me a link to information on the subject of bug classification that is used here.

Thank you.

Comment 3 Chani 2008-07-20 23:39:11 UTC

I don't think there are any consequences, per se. it just helps developers to sort the reports. I think wishlist items are unlikely to be worked on during a feature freeze (which we won't have for a few months)... but even that isn't always the case ;)

Comment 4 Martin Köbele 2008-08-05 05:54:07 UTC

with fc9 and KDE 4.1.0 "switch user" simply locks the current user out, exactly like "lock".

I can confirm, that "switch user" does not provide a dialog with which you can start a new session how it used to work in kde 3.5.

I really miss this feature.

Comment 5 Aaron J. Seigo 2008-08-05 05:56:49 UTC

and yet i use this feature at least weekly, sometimes several times a week.

i know this works in trunk due to that; please report this upstream.

Comment 6 Martin Köbele 2008-08-11 02:11:33 UTC

I opened a bug for fedora 9

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=458616

Comment 7 Rex Dieter 2008-08-11 06:41:44 UTC

works fine here too (... I cannot reproduce the problem anyway)

Comment 8 Martin Köbele 2008-08-11 19:50:08 UTC

problem solved

Solution: make sure you use kdm and NOT gdm ;)

Comment 9 Rik 2008-08-11 22:11:55 UTC

I see,

This seems to solve the problem and thus indeed WORKSFORME as well.

Rik

Comment 10 Rik 2008-08-11 23:06:12 UTC

Forgot to say thanks to Martin, 

For I now also (think I) understand now what reporting upstream means... |-)

Comment 11 Kevin Kofler 2010-10-27 18:58:56 UTC

This got implemented for GDM in kdebase-workspace trunk (for 4.6) now, see bug 186198.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 186198 ***