Another reason to prefer a real root over sudo

Lou Katz ubuntu at metron.com
Mon Feb 2 23:20:53 UTC 2009


On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 10:49:31PM +0100, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 12:24 -0800, Lou Katz wrote:
> > I don't think this works if you are not running gnome. I am using
> > xfce.
> 
> Might be, but does xfce not have a "switch user" option among the logout
> options?
> 

Yes, and when you click on it, you get (Ta Da!)

"GDM (GNOME Display Manager) is not running
You might be using a different display manager, such as KDM (KDE Display Manager), CDE login (dtlogin), or xdm. If you wish to use
this feature, then your system will need to be configured to use GDM instead."

and a single button (OK) which cancels the operation.

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