[Xfce-bugs] [Bug 9352] xfce4-session-manager should offer user switching

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https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9352

Guido Berhoerster <gber at opensuse.org> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Guido Berhoerster <gber at opensuse.org> ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> One issue is that there's no standard for user switching. gdm provides a
> gdm-flexiserver binary, lightdm uses a crude hack to provide the same one in
> another PATH, but there's (afaik) no such thing as a common, standardized
> way to do it.

Offering user switching based on the presence of a gdmflexiserver binary as in
the actions plugin is not right since it doesn't know whether LightDM or GDM
are actually running.
In any case, gdmflexiserver has been removed from GDM 3.6 and apparently it's
only possible to access its user switiching interface by linking to its client
library. So it is probably ok to ignore it from now on and rather support user
switching via the LightDM DBus interface org.freedesktop.DisplayManager which
nicely solves the problem of detecting the running DM.

> xfswitch-plugin will enable you to call this gdm-flexiserver binary, in case
> you're interested.

As the original reporter noted the actions plugin already supports that.

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