Question about fast user switching

Reid Rivenburgh reidr at pobox.com
Thu Apr 3 15:32:45 UTC 2008


Hi.  I'm currently using the F9 beta with all development updates.
For years, I used KDE, but now I'm using Gnome.  My question, though,
is about the fast user switching.  (I asked this on fedora-list but
got no response; it's probably a tough/weird one!)

I  have a computer that I'm almost always logged in on.  I'd like to
set it up so that when I'm not at the computer, it shows the gdm login
screen so others can login to use it.  In the past, I've used a custom
script to switch to VT 7, which was pretty reliably where gdm was
running.  I attached that script to a KDE panel button, and also
called it from xautolock so it'd eventually switch to gdm if I got up
and forgot to manually switch.  My script also turned on the
screensaver.

But now I'd like to use the built-in user switching, since it probably
does a better job of managing permissions and resources.  I have the
applet installed, so I can click on that, go to "Other...", and get
the gdm login.  That works fine.  But I don't know how to call it from
xautolock.  Is there a way to do that?  If not, should I submit a
bugzilla feature request?  I think I basically just need some way to
invoke it from the command line.

Thanks,
reid




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