Everyone:
Last week I did my usual command-line upgrade, from F33 to F34.
Most things still work, and some (like the KDE clipboard) work better.
But of course the Applications menu changed radically. It took time for me to find the new places for things, and one thing I never found:
Switch User.
I now find it impossible to start a new session with another registered user. Now the only way to use a secondary user account is to log out, then log in as the secondary. And do the same in reverse when I'm done.
The biggest reason I abandoned GNOME, years ago, was that GNOME did not provide, in its Graphical User Interface, a convenient way to switch users, and have two users logged on at once. KDE did.
Until now.
It used to be on a menu called "Leave." Along with options labeled "Log off", "Sleep," "Hibernate," "Restart," and "Shut Down."
Today all those options, other than "Switch User," appear at the bottom of the applications menu screen. Which is mighty convenient for those other options, but not for Switch User, which is gone.
What am I missing? If Switch User is still there, where did it go?
Temlakos
On Mon, 2021-05-03 at 07:48 -0400, Temlakos wrote:
What am I missing? If Switch User is still there, where did it go?
If you lock the screen, is there a switch user option in there?
On Mon, 2021-05-03 at 22:42 +0930, Tim via users wrote:
On Mon, 2021-05-03 at 07:48 -0400, Temlakos wrote:
What am I missing? If Switch User is still there, where did it go?
If you lock the screen, is there a switch user option in there?
The OP already asked on the KDE list and was told it's been disabled for now on F34 because of showstopper bugs. Don't know if that applies to Gnome as well.
poc
On 5/3/21 9:12 AM, Tim via users wrote:
On Mon, 2021-05-03 at 07:48 -0400, Temlakos wrote:
What am I missing? If Switch User is still there, where did it go?
If you lock the screen, is there a switch user option in there?
No. It has every option except that: sleep, hibernate, restart, shutdown, lock, and log out.
Someone on the KDE list suggested that the problem might be "upstream." Apparently KDE's implementation of user switching has been accumulating problems for the last several interations, and now they just flat can't recommend it. So rather than block F34 entirely, they just disabled it and pledged to "work on it."
Temlakos
On 5/3/21 6:36 AM, Temlakos wrote:
On 5/3/21 9:12 AM, Tim via users wrote:
On Mon, 2021-05-03 at 07:48 -0400, Temlakos wrote:
What am I missing? If Switch User is still there, where did it go?
If you lock the screen, is there a switch user option in there?
No. It has every option except that: sleep, hibernate, restart, shutdown, lock, and log out.
Someone on the KDE list suggested that the problem might be "upstream." Apparently KDE's implementation of user switching has been accumulating problems for the last several interations, and now they just flat can't recommend it. So rather than block F34 entirely, they just disabled it and pledged to "work on it."
You could come back to Gnome where there's been a switch user option for a long time. ;-)
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