When using the cinnamon desktop in conjunction with the gdm display manager: 1. Go to the main menu. 2. Click the "Logout" button ("Leave the sesion") 3. Click the "Switch User" button. Nothing happens. Nothing new appears in ~/.xsession-errors nor in /var/log/ either. Instead, it should return to the gdm login screen and allow switching to a different user session. cinnamon-2.0.14-4.fc20.x86_64 gdm-3.10.0.1-1.fc20.x86_64 systemd-208-9.fc20.x86_64 This is consistently reproducible. This used to work in Fedora 18, so is a regression. Note that by contrast, Switch User does work if using lightdm instead of gdm. (Unfortunately lightdm does not look as pretty as gdm.)
Cinnamon doesn't fully support gdm. < This used to work in Fedora 18, so is a regression. F18 cinnamon used gnome components, cinnamon-2 uses it's own cinnamon components. There has also been major changes to gdm, gdm is no longer a standalone program and requires gnome-shell to function.
*** Bug 1048192 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
(In reply to leigh scott from comment #1) > Cinnamon doesn't fully support gdm. > > < This used to work in Fedora 18, so is a regression. > > F18 cinnamon used gnome components, cinnamon-2 uses it's own cinnamon > components. > There has also been major changes to gdm, gdm is no longer a standalone > program and requires gnome-shell to function. This doesn't change the objective fact that this is a regression, whether or not it was a deliberate decision. gdm still works in combination with cinnamon, except for this. Nothing prevents cinnamon being used with gdm, nor warns that it is an unsupported combination. The button is still present, but silently does nothing. Therefore it clearly *is* a bug. => Changing resolution status from "NOTABUG" to "WONTFIX".
(In reply to Tim Wegener from comment #3) > (In reply to leigh scott from comment #1) > > Cinnamon doesn't fully support gdm. > > > > < This used to work in Fedora 18, so is a regression. > > > > F18 cinnamon used gnome components, cinnamon-2 uses it's own cinnamon > > components. > > There has also been major changes to gdm, gdm is no longer a standalone > > program and requires gnome-shell to function. > > > This doesn't change the objective fact that this is a regression, whether or > not it was a deliberate decision. > > gdm still works in combination with cinnamon, except for this. > Nothing prevents cinnamon being used with gdm, nor warns that it is an > unsupported combination. > The button is still present, but silently does nothing. > > Therefore it clearly *is* a bug. > > => Changing resolution status from "NOTABUG" to "WONTFIX". In fact I'm going to reopen this, since the Switch User button should at least issue a message saying why it does not work in this situation, i.e. that this is not supported with gdm, rather than silently doing nothing.
Patches exist but I'm not willing to risk introducing any regression to lightdm support. https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-session/pull/9 The patch is too messed up to use eg: uneeded changes to indents and the way it supports lightdm
Until F19, it used to be possible to change users via the "User Applet". Now however, in F20, Change User from the User Applet simply locks the screen. This is getting worse. So far, the behavior was simply inconsistent. Now I don't know how to switch the user from with cinnamon. Should this be filed as a bug against gdm then? Probably nothing will result from it, but I believe the distribution default login manager should play nicely with other window managers as well, after all it did for a while, so there is no reason why it should not continue to do so...
Sorry, after update to latest cinnamon, switching the user via the User Applet works again as it did in F19. Sorry for the noise.