On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 23:10 +0000, Angus MacGyver wrote:
> Hi all, 
> 
> I have tried to search the archives, but nothing found as far as I can
> tell.
> Also googled, and again nowt..
> 
> Here goes the questions.
> 
> Standard 10.2 installation, choose Gnome as the desktop (like all before
> hand)
> 
> Login as one user, and lock the screen, when i hit mouse the unlock box
> comes up, but it crucially missing the "Switch User" functionality that
> was present in 10.1.
> 
> First question, how can i get this essential functionality back

Quick and dirty:
gconftool-2 --set --type bool /apps/gnome-screensaver/user_switch_enabled true

As you and your wife.

> second question, WTF was this removed ?

a) its the upstream default
b) it was causing problems in machines with large numbers of users (NIS,
AD, etc) because it was trying to enumerate all the users

Possibly we should re-enable the patch on openSUSE and leave it out on
SLE.

-JP
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JP Rosevear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Novell, Inc.

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