Geoff, your report confirms you are getting the correct behaviour. I'll assume that MNLipp is also seeing the same thing based on their comments. The issue you have reported about not being able to shutdown sounds like bug 861171. It makes sense that you can't shutdown from the greeter because another user is logged in, however the greeter should report this case and/or allow you to override this.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1005813 Title: Locking session leads to stale X server Status in Light Display Manager: Fix Committed Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Fix Committed Bug description: Choosing "Switch to different user" in Ubuntu gives you another login screen, which is very nice and useful. However after using that alternate session, lightdm keeps the X server and greeter for that alternate session open and running. Gdm, on the contrary, terminates the X server for the alternate session when you log out of it. This behaviour does make a difference when you run Ubuntu on a laptop on battery. Using the alternate login just once after boot (and ending the session again) initiates a constant cpu load of 1-2% (on my laptop). Doesn't sound much. But compared to "idle" without the second X server and greeter, this is an increase of about 75%. I admit that I didn't have the time to keep the laptop running idlely und doing some real battery measurements. But with a laptop on battery, you should use any possibility to save energy. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm/+bug/1005813/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
