Unity-Greeter / LightDM does not indicate if a user is already logged on when trying to log in a 2nd+ user, whilst the 1st user is already logged in

Bug #835312 reported by Andy Rogers
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Light Display Manager
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned
Unity Greeter
Fix Released
Low
Unassigned
unity-greeter (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

In GDM, is you goto log in a 2nd user the GDM menu shows you if another account is already logged in. In unity-greeter this currently does not show.

there is no way currently from unity-greeter to see if other users are currently logged in

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: unity-greeter 0.0.5-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-9.14-generic 3.0.3
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-9-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Aug 27 09:52:15 2011
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity-greeter
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-07-30 (28 days ago)

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Andy Rogers (andy-rogers) wrote :
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Hernando Torque (htorque) wrote :

Confirmed. In the GTK greeter this seems to be indicated by the user name font being bold - not exactly good either.

Changed in unity-greeter (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
summary: - Unity-Greeter does not indiciate if a user is already logged on when
- trying to log in a 2nd+ user, whilst the 1st user is already logged in
+ Unity-Greeter / LightDM does not indicate if a user is already logged
+ on when trying to log in a 2nd+ user, whilst the 1st user is already
+ logged in
Changed in lightdm:
status: New → Invalid
Revision history for this message
Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) wrote :

Fixed in 0.0.6

Changed in unity-greeter:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Low
Changed in unity-greeter (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Changed in unity-greeter:
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
Changed in unity-greeter (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
Changed in unity-greeter:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Changed in unity-greeter (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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