Switch User still broken

[Gilboa Davara]

On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 19:43 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Rex Dieter wrote:
> > afaik, there is no standard here.  kde/kdm does it one way, gdm/gnome
> > another.  And iirc, kde's user switching feature existed first, if it
> > matters.
> 
> Right. KDE/KDM starts a new X display with the new user, whereas (as far as 
> I know) GNOME/GDM lets the new user take over the existing X display, which 
> is supposedly faster, but harder to implement. There's also ConsoleKit magic 
> involved in the G* implementation whereas for the K* one, the new X display 
> just gets registered as a new session with ConsoleKit by the regular KDM 
> ConsoleKit integration.
> 
>         Kevin Kofler

I believe you are wrong.
GDM opens a new X session in the next vacant TTY.
At least it does so on two different F11 and F12 machines I use.

- Gilboa