another session of google gave me http://askubuntu.com/questions/79318/how-can-i-switch-users-from-within-xfce quote: "Note: The next version of XFCE, 4.10, will include a Switch User button in the Actions plugin, and deprecate the session menu<https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8358#c1> ." Guys haven't updated the schedule on the wiki tho. but in their blog ( http://blog.xfce.org/) they did, so 4.10 ( or rather 4010) will be released @ the end of April. If this holds true, than i guess that it will hit us in a month in the form of rpms.
at the same time, according to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=524413 "Fedora Update System 2009-10-06 06:11:16 EDT xfce4-xfswitch-plugin-0.0.1-1.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report." but when i search in the current repos nothing comes up... Why ? Solution: got the source from http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/15/Everything/source/SRPMS/xfce4-xfswitch-plugin-0.0.1-3.fc15.src.rpm recompiled it - no issues. added a new item to the panel -"User switching". I just observed that when i switch the user, the original session remains open. From one perspective it's odd, but if i think about it - it's awesome. thank you Andrew On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 8:40 AM, Andrew Z <[email protected]> wrote: > Todd And Margo Chester <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 03/03/2012 08:51 PM, Andrew Z wrote: >> > Hello, >> > how do i add "switch user" capability to XFCE? >> > it seemed that in 4.8 (at least ubuntu team) had to add it. But i >> >> >> > can't find any solution for RH. >> > it seemed that i need to have xfswitch, but found nothing in the regular >> > repos. >> > The closest i found is this one - >> > ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/linux/releases/16/Everything/x86_64/os/Packages/xfce4-xfswitch-plugin-0.0.1-3.fc15.x86_64.rpm >> >> >> > >> > Please advise. >> > thank you >> > Andrew >> >> Hi Andrew, >> >> I have never seen a Switch User utility in Xfce. Does not >> mean it was not there. I have always pressed the little >> green running man >> and then pressed "Log Out", then selected >> a different user. >> >> -T >> >> > > -- > Todd, > That's what I've been using for quite a while too. But now, my boss (aka > wife) wants to have her session(she has her own os user) running in > parallel with mine. > > Andrew >
