<quote who="Luis M"> > Just a quick thought, I was wondering if there is already (done or in > development) an applet for switching users fast (a la other OSes which we > all know). I know that gdmflexiserver does this on Debian and it's already > part of the System Tools menu, however, I think it would be nice to have > it as a menu in Actions->Switch User and display a list of all the users > reported by 'getent passwd' (or maybe there is a better method, but this > is known to work with all user databases supported by PAM, not just flat > files) with uid higher than whatever the lowest UID allowed for the system > is (on Debian 1000 by default) (and of course, take into account the users > already known by GDM (and the users that should be skipped -- blacklisted > -- etc...).
Much discussion about this on desktop-devel-list, it will come. GDM already provides the entire infrastructure to do it, someone just needs to finish off the user level bits. [ Part of which may involve an xscreensaver front end daemon for GNOME :-) ] Definitely on the cards upstream. - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2004: Adelaide, Australia http://lca2004.linux.org.au/ There's no horse higher, no mailing list taunt lower, no developer base wider. Rock My Code in the Bosom of Debian.
