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Bug 537869 - Unlock screensaver when the user is already logged in
Unlock screensaver when the user is already logged in
Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE
Product: gdm
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: GDM maintainers
GDM maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-06-11 20:54 UTC by Vincent Untz
Modified: 2009-01-19 08:19 UTC
See Also:
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Description Vincent Untz 2008-06-11 20:54:11 UTC 
1. Log in with $user.
2. Lock your screen.
3. In the gnome-screensaver dialog, choose "switch user".
4. In the gdm login screen, type $user and enter the password.
5. You're then faced with the screensaver dialog where you have to enter your password again.

GDM should tell in some secure way gnome-screensaver to unlock the screen.
Comment 1 William Jon McCann 2008-06-12 14:04:14 UTC 
It already does this.  What versions are you using?

Do you have ConsoleKit running?  Does gnome-screensaver give you some message that it can't talk to the system bus or can't determine the current session when you run it like:
gnome-screensaver --debug --no-daemon
Comment 2 Vincent Untz 2008-06-12 19:11:19 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> It already does this.  What versions are you using?

In which GDM? :-)

I'll try again later -- could also be an issue in openSUSE...
Comment 3 Christoph Wurm 2009-01-19 08:19:13 UTC 
Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen this bug if you can provide the information asked for.
Thanks!