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Bug 406226 - Enable AlwaysLoginCurrentSession by default
Enable AlwaysLoginCurrentSession by default
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gdm
Classification: Core
Component: general
2.17.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: GDM maintainers
GDM maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-02-09 21:59 UTC by William Jon McCann
Modified: 2007-02-26 05:09 UTC
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Description William Jon McCann 2007-02-09 21:59:19 UTC 
We added AlwaysLoginCurrentSession back in bug 311415.  It might make sense to enable this by default now that we're adding more complete support for user switching.
Comment 1 Brian Cameron 2007-02-12 09:53:00 UTC 
This is an interface change, and is probably not appropraite for GDM 2.17 release.  However, I am agreeable to changing this in 2.19 if people think that this makes sense.

Does anyone else have any thoughts or concerns about changing the default value here?
Comment 2 Matthias Clasen 2007-02-12 14:18:30 UTC 
If this toggle does what I think it does, then we will probably turn it on in Fedora anyway, now that we have user switching enabled. Therefore, the factory default will not affect us much
Comment 3 Ray Strode [halfline] 2007-02-12 15:11:32 UTC 
I think it's the only non-broken way to do things.  I don't think GNOME handles the same user being logged in twice very well right now, so providing a button to login to a desktop that won't work right seems weird.
Comment 4 William Jon McCann 2007-02-19 15:20:02 UTC 
I expect that all the distributions will enable this by default for this release now that we're enabling user switching.  But for those of us who use a stock upstream GDM (and I think we should encourage more people to do so) I think it would be good to enable this by default too.  As Ray said it is essentially the only non-broken way to operate.

I would prefer to see this enabled for 2.18 so a stock upstream GNOME system supports user-switching without tweaking.
Comment 5 Brian Cameron 2007-02-26 05:09:22 UTC 
It seems people agree that changing this setting makes the most sense for 2.18.  Even though we are past API freeze, I think making this change it minor.  Fixed in SVN head.