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Bug 530415 - Automatically select the user in gdm when switching
Automatically select the user in gdm when switching
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: fast-user-switch-applet
Classification: Deprecated
Component: Applet
2.22.x
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Fast User Switch Applet Maintainer
Fast User Switch Applet Maintainer
gnome[unmaintained]
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-04-28 18:22 UTC by chicha
Modified: 2011-06-10 12:25 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement

Attachments
Automatically select username in gdm (8.00 KB, patch)
2008-04-28 18:23 UTC, chicha 		accepted-commit_now Details | Review

Description chicha 2008-04-28 18:22:21 UTC 
Hello,

A patch from Fedora people, also used by Ubuntu ... and me (Archlinux user) make it possible to have the user automatically selected in gdm when switching with fusa :

With this patch, when a user switches to another user not already logged in, the new user is automatically selected in gdm and he only needs to enter its password. No need to select its username with the mouse or the arrow keys.

I have used this patch with fusa-2.20 and reapplied it with fusa-2.22.0.

Please find attached this patch, and thank you very much for considering this enhancement !

Cheers,
Chicha
Comment 1 chicha 2008-04-28 18:23:05 UTC 
Created attachment 110054 [details] [review]
Automatically select username in gdm
Comment 2 Thomas Thurman 2008-04-28 19:09:01 UTC 
Sounds useful-- thanks.  fusa will possibly be merged with its corresponding applet in gdm at some point soon, but I'll try to ensure that all relevant patches are moved over too.
Comment 3 chicha 2008-04-29 14:49:25 UTC 
Thank you very much !
Comment 4 Thomas Thurman 2008-07-26 19:37:31 UTC 
Chica: I want to commit this.  Can I have the name and email address of the creator for the changelog, please?
Comment 5 chicha 2008-07-27 14:27:14 UTC 
Hello Thomas,

I think you should contact Matthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com> for more info about who did this change (I think it is Matthias himself but am not sure).

I only took the patch from Fedora's packages ...

I hope it hepled !
Thank you very much for including this patch !

Cheers,
Chicha
Comment 6 Akhil Laddha 2011-06-10 12:25:32 UTC 
fast-user-switch-applet development has been stalled and it has been unmaintained for a few years now. Maintainers don't have future development plan so i am closing the bugs as WONTFIX. Please feel free to reopen the bugs in future if anyone takes the responsibility of active development.