Should gdmflexiserver systemd aliases, or should xfwm4 be patched

Sam Varshavchik mrsam at courier-mta.com
Fri Sep 4 22:25:00 UTC 2015


Kevin Fenzi writes:

> On Fri, 04 Sep 2015 08:37:13 -0400
> Sam Varshavchik <mrsam at courier-mta.com> wrote:
>
> > I use LightDM with XFCE, and the "Switch User" option is disabled.
> >
> > I tested the following fix, and it works perfectly:
> >
> > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/LightDM#User_switching_under_Xfce4
> >
> > I think this is a bug in Fedora's packaging. Either xfwm4 should be
> > patched to look foreither gdmflexiserver or dm-tool, or
> > gdmflexiserver should be a wrapper that looks at where the
> > display-manager.service alias is pointing to, and invoke the
> > appropriate switcher.
>
> I would think the the wrapper would make the most sense.
>
> File a RFE on gdm?

Ok. After thinking a bit more, I made a proposal for how to make all the  
necessary plumbing work, in bug 1260241.


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