<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#3333ff"> J.Markoll wrote: <blockquote cite="mid43C2D7B8.50409@free.fr" type="cite">David A. Cobb a écrit : <blockquote type="cite">J.Markoll wrote: <blockquote type="cite">David A. Cobb a écrit : <blockquote type="cite">Running UBUNTU Hoary, GNOME 2.10.0 Please advise me which screen-locking application to use to make "New Login" available. It was working, but a recent update has left it so that only the user who locked the desktop can unlock it; a different user cannot start a new session. </blockquote> Hello, May I ask you to be more accurate in your question ? do you mean another user locked the session, you have to unlock it ? Call the administrator. If it is you, I think become root and change password for that user could do it. I don't understand what the update did in locking... either we lock the screen or we end a session, so which one ? :) </blockquote> No, as originally installed, when the screen locked and the keyboard was touched the prompt box included a button "New Login" which allowed to open a second session for another user. Now it does not do so. And the "New Login" ap is still present in my System Tools menu.and it works correctly. But it does take much longer to work than formerly. And, to answer your question specifically, the case involves my wife waking early and trying to log on without having me log out. </blockquote> As far as I know, it's not possible to login two users on a graphical interface whereas one on a GUI and one ore more on the terminal interfaces is Ok. That might be the origin of the problem, but no idea how to solve that :( How did your wife proceed to try to login ? Greetings, Joyce Markoll. </blockquote> Under System Tools you will find a selection "New Login." When run, this presents the Gnome login screen with an extra button "Quit." The existing session is not terminated -- it may be suspended, but I don't think so. A different user can then start a session. For applications in the first session, the situation is (I think), what it would be if all its windows were obscured; of course they would sleep waiting for input if they were at that point. More than one screen-locking program, and more than one screen-saver, exist. I suspect I'm running the wrong one, but I'm not sure which is right. I'm only certain that formerly I had this capability. <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate "By God's Grace, I am a Christian man; by my actions a great sinner." -- The Way of a Pilgrim: R.French, Tr. Free at last! Free at last! Using Linux, I'm FREE at last! Life is too short to tolerate crappy software! </pre> </body> </html>