KDE switch user doesn't---behaves like lock screen

[konscript]

Hi folks,

I'm running Karmic Koala, downloaded and installed on October 30, with Kubuntu-desktop. When I go to Launcher-->Leave-->Switch User,
it behaves exactly the same as Lock Screen. I'm presented with a dialog box to enter the password for the current locked session and only
two buttons, Unlock and Cancel. There doesn't appear to be any way to specify a different user or initiate a new session. There is no response to any of the obvious buttons, such as Ctrl-C or F1-F12.

Are there any configuration options to enable/disable Switch User? Could there be some software package that I need and haven't yet
downloaded? (I remember loading a "fast-user-switch" package in a previous release, but nothing like that appears available.) User switching works perfectly from a Gnome login---this appears to only be a problem for KDE logins.

Any advice or suggestions for debugging this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

[konscript]

Re: KDE switch user doesn't---behaves like lock screen

Hi folks,

So, silence... Either because everybody is seeing this, or, more likely, because no one else is. Aren't there any suggestions for debugging
a Launcher applet (for instance, turning on logging to see what "Switch User" is doing)? Is there any workaround? For instance, can I
set up a different screen lock program that allows logging in to an alternate user? Any ideas at all for what might have caused this?
I tried removing and re-installing kdm and kubuntu-desktop based on this post:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ku...ry/025680.html
but that didn't cause any difference. I'm sure I'm doing something wrong, but I don't have any ideas on what that is.

Thanks.

[Adrian]

Re: KDE switch user doesn't---behaves like lock screen

don't know when I click on "switch user" I do get a "new session" dialog so I think it works as it should, try lancelot and see if you get the same problem, if you do it might mean that's a more lower level problem.

[vinnywright]

Re: KDE switch user doesn't---behaves like lock screen

when I do that I get this

[img width=400 height=300]http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c291/vinnywright/switchuserdefault.png[/img]

and clicking it takes me to the mane login screen like when you first boot up!

if I login to a diferent acct. or the same one upon loging out I then get the locked by screen like if youd locked a seshon.......and then I enter my password and am back ware we started........that is loged ot of the second seshon and back in the origanall.

VINNY

[kubicle]

Re: KDE switch user doesn't---behaves like lock screen

The way switch user works, is that it locks the current X session running on virtual terminal 7 (by default), and starts a new X session on virtual terminal 8 with a new kdm login screen.

If you don't see the login screen, try pressing Ctrl+Alt+F8 to change to the new virtual terminal (which should be done automatically, but you can switch between terminals using Ctrl+Alt+F<number of terminal>).

If you don't see the login screen after switching terminals, then something might prevent the new X session from starting, in which case you could start by having a peek at the logs (mainly /var/log/Xorg.1.log...which is the xorg log for the second X session. In errors after login, ~/.xsession-errors-:1 can provide more information)

[konscript]

Re: KDE switch user doesn't---behaves like lock screen

> don't know when I click on "switch user" I do get a "new session" dialog so I think it works as it should, try lancelot and see if you get the > same problem, if you do it might mean that's a more lower level problem.

This helped enormously! Thanks much! It turns out that, whether through my own error, or through an install process error, I was running
gdm rather than kdm. When I used Lancelot to try to do a switch error, it gave a "Display manager error", and using the arrow, I got the
following message: "Lancelot can not find your display manager. This means that it not able to retrieve the list of currently running sessions, or start a new one.", which led me to check the display manager. I re-installed kdm/kubuntu-desktop, selecting kdm as the
default manager. This led to a configuration that wouldn't bring up windowing, since I did it as a Gnome user, and I think the conflict
between gdm and kdm was confusing. When I did the dpkg-reconfigure gdm without windowing, and selected kdm, I was able to
log in to KDE logins and successfully do switch-user. However, this disabled the ability to do switch-user from Gnome-using-users.

So, I guess my feedback would be that it would be nice if:

1. gdm-based switch-user and kdm-based switch-user would interoperate somehow.
2. Launcher would report an error as Lancelot does.
3. kdm would recognize a user .Xmodmap file (which I have and gdm responds to, but kdm doesn't seem to use). Have to work on this.

Thanks very much for the Lancelot suggestion---it helped a lot.