Re: Locking the Desktop

David A. Cobb a écrit : 
J.Markoll wrote:

David A. Cobb a écrit :

Running UBUNTU Hoary, GNOME 2.10.0

Please advise me which screen-locking application to use to make "New Login" available. It was working, but a recent update has left it so that only the user who locked the desktop can unlock it; a different user cannot start a new session.

Hello,
May I ask you to be more accurate in your question ? do you mean another user locked the session, you have to unlock it ? Call the administrator. If it is you, I think become root and change password for that user could do it.
I don't understand what the update did in locking... either we lock the
screen or we end a session, so which one ? :)

No, as originally installed, when the screen locked and the keyboard was touched the prompt box included a button "New Login" which allowed to open a second session for another user. Now it does not do so. And the "New Login" ap is still present in my System Tools menu.and it works correctly. But it does take much longer to work than formerly.

And, to answer your question specifically, the case involves my wife waking early and trying to log on without having me log out.
As far as I know, it's not possible to login two users on a graphical
interface whereas one on a GUI and one ore more on the terminal interfaces is Ok. That might be the origin of the problem, but no idea how to solve that :(

How did your wife proceed to try to login ?
Greetings, Joyce Markoll.


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