GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 685062
'Switch Session' does not work
Last modified: 2012-10-04 06:58:53 UTC
We rename the 'Switch User' menuitem to 'Switch Session' when there is only one user, but multiple defined sessions. Therefore, clicking on 'switch session' is in effect a user-switching operation. The problem with that is that we don't allow the same user to log in multiple times. If you get to to he login screen, your user has the 'glow', and we don't show a session chooser, because there is already a session for the user. To make session switching work, it must operate like 'log out', not like 'switch user'.
(In reply to comment #0) > To make session switching work, it must operate like 'log out', not like > 'switch user'. 'Switch session' doesn't sound like 'loose all running state', so maybe we should just remove the item altogether rather than make it an alias of 'log out' (which we show anyway if multiple sessions are available)
Created attachment 225346 [details] [review] userMenu: Remove 'Switch Session' item GDM does not allow concurrent logins of a single user, so making 'Switch Session' a user switch operation does not work - in order to choose a different session, users have to log out. Rather than making 'Switch Session' an alias of 'Log out' (which is available anyway when multiple sessions are defined), remove the item altogether - 'Switch Session' suggests an operation that does not loose state, and we currently favor 'Switch Session' over 'Switch User', so on systems that have both multiple users and multiple sessions, the latter would become unavailable.
Removing it is fine with me.
Removing it is fine with me
Review of attachment 225346 [details] [review]: Makes sense.
GDM used to allow logging in to multiple sessions with the same user.
Afaik, it hasn't done that for a long time
Attachment 225346 [details] pushed as 0e01a81 - userMenu: Remove 'Switch Session' item