Lucid switch user escape problem

[Fred Roller]

On 03/26/2010 09:37 AM, Fred Roller wrote:
> On 03/26/2010 08:37 AM, Colin Law wrote:
>    
>> On Lucid the shutdown menu shows a list of users.  If I select one of
>> those by accident and don't know the password there seems to be no way
>> of getting out of the login screen, other than restart.  Cancel just
>> shows the same screen again (with only the selected user shown).  Am I
>> just blind and cannot see an obvious button or is this a bug?  I can't
>> see anything on launchpad about it.
>>
>> colin
>>
>>
>>      
> Not getting the same issue here.  Mine just says "Switch from [user]..."
> I don't have a user list either at log in, so that may be the
> difference.  I have to enter a user name at log in.  This change is
> discussed in detail in the archives but the code from cli is:
>
>           sudo -u gdm gconftool-2 --set --type boolean
> /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list true
>
> What I get is my standard log in screen when I attempt to reproduce your
> issue.  Maybe another can reproduce.
>
>    
sorry for the repeat, managed to reproduce when I switched to the new 
user and left the original user logged in.  the orginal user was 
listed.  when I click on that user in the list cancel did not esc but 
the switch user button drop me back down to my original log in screen 
allowing me to re-log in the original user.  hope this helps.

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