Switching to another user with automatic locking

[Nikolas Arend]

mmassonnet at gmail.com wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 12:57:16PM +0100, Paul Smith wrote:
>   
>> Dear All
>>     
>
> Hello Paul,
>
>   
>> Is there some way of switching to another user with automatic locking
>> of the screen of the first user, i.e., likewise KDE?
>>     
>
> Doesn't the gnome-screensaver have such a feature?  Lock screen, and
> then you can log in as another user.
>
>   

You can use xscreensaver together with gdm, i.e. gdmflexiserver. 
xscreensaver has this switch users functionality (must be compiled in, 
but usually it is), which calls gdmflexiserver. When the screen is 
locked via "xscreensaver-command -lock", the xscreensaver login gui 
provides you with a "New Login" button which in turn brings you to a new 
gdm login screen.

HTH,  Nick.