Bug 458616
| Summary: | KDE 4.1.0: "switch user" simply locks the current user out, exactly like "lock". | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Martin Köbele <martin> |
| Component: | kdebase-workspace | Assignee: | Than Ngo <than> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 9 | CC: | fedora, kevin, ltinkl, rdieter, than |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Reopened |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2008-08-11 12:09:15 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Martin Köbele
2008-08-11 00:09:50 UTC
it actually works after deleting ~/.kde damn, I closed it too quickly..... The only improvement I experienced after deleting ~/.kde was that I actually get a dialog explaining me the details of user switching (F7,F8 etc). But after proceeding, the screen goes black and when I move my mouse, I get the "unlock" dialog. No widget for starting a new session appears. I wish I could reopen this bug. reopened on request. Unfortunately, I cannot reproduce this (works here for me). One question though, did this ever work for you? If so, when did it break? (In reply to comment #4) > One question though, did this ever work for you? If so, when did it break? It used to work in KDE 3.5.9. It was officially broken in KDE 4.0.x, x < 5, I believe. Are there any logfiles which could contain any additional information? thx, I was mostly concerned if this was a 4.0->4.1 regression or not. So, next question, how are you starting kde? Are you using kdm? (hint: you need to use kdm for this to have any chance of working). ugh, doesn't fedora give me gdm by default? This might be it! How/Where do I change whether gdm or kdm is used? Unfortunately, it all depends on how you installed fedora/kde. If you installed from the KDE live image, everything should "just work" and use kdm. Otherwise, yeah, you end up with gdm (which isn't compatible here). to be sure, add to /etc/sysconfig/desktop (or create if not already present), DISPLAYMANAGER=KDE and reboot (note: simply restarting X is insufficient). yes, thank you. I have just found /etc/X11/prefdm and noticed that it used the fallback where it starts gdm first. I had commented that line out, but creating the desktop file in sysconfig is the proper way to do it, and that's what I have now. It works beautifully now! Thank you! You can close this bug. no reboot necessary.. # init 3 followed by # init 5 is enough *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 560511 *** |