Bug 453277
Summary: | kde4 switching user doesn't work | ||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Don Zickus <dzickus> |
Component: | kdebase-workspace | Assignee: | Than Ngo <than> |
Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | high | ||
Version: | 9 | CC: | fedora, kevin, ltinkl, rdieter, than, tuxbrewr |
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Hardware: | i386 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Last Closed: | 2008-07-16 19:35:37 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description
Don Zickus
2008-06-28 19:29:34 UTC
kde's user switching only works if you're using kdm as DISPLAYMANAGER (and not gdm). make sure you have a /etc/sysconfig/desktop containing DISPLAYMANAGER="KDE" and reboot. Right, unfortunately KDE and GNOME both have their own idea of how user switching should work, and GDM only supports the GNOME method, KDM only the KDE one. How this came to happen is that KDE was the first to implement user switching and they did it in the way they considered the simplest (by starting up another X11 "virtual terminal" as the new user). Then GNOME came along and implemented a design optimized for speed (the switching happens in the same "virtual terminal", and ConsoleKit and GNOME do all the magic), which is not supported by KDE yet. So for now we're stuck with 2 different user switching methods, each only working if the login manager matches the desktop. :-( Ok, I did that, rebooted and got the new display manager. But the 'switch user' command still isn't working correctly. Same symptoms as before. Thoughts? Ok when you see the box with SESSIONS in it. Click launch, you will get a warning message confirming you want to start a new session. Chose Launch a new session and you will be taken to KDM to logon a new user. Let me know if this helps. Ahh, yes it does. The screen is very confusing as to what it is supposed to do. But I got my new login screen so I'm happy. |