multiple GUI logins and mounting external drives - users - Fedora mailing-lists

27 Mar 2018

      Hi,
If I use the GUI switch user feature, so that two users are currently
logged into the same PC, graphically (and you can switch between them
using CTRL+ALT+F1 and CTRL+ALT+F2), I frequently find that whenever I
plug in a USB drive, or SD card, that nothing pops up on the login that
I'm using.  It nearly always pops an authentication window on the other
login.
It doesn't matter which one I'm currently using, it nearly always uses
the other one.  Surely the system knows which one is currently on-
display, and should use that one?
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[tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
Linux 4.15.10-200.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Mar 15 17:14:41 UTC 2018 x86_64

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