Lucid switch user escape problem

[Colin Law]

On 26 March 2010 16:48, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 26 March 2010 13:50, Fred Roller <fred at fwrgallery.com> wrote:
>> On 03/26/2010 09:37 AM, Fred Roller wrote:
>>> On 03/26/2010 08:37 AM, Colin Law wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Lucid the shutdown menu shows a list of users.  If I select one of
>>>> those by accident and don't know the password there seems to be no way
>>>> of getting out of the login screen, other than restart.  Cancel just
>>>> shows the same screen again (with only the selected user shown).  Am I
>>>> just blind and cannot see an obvious button or is this a bug?  I can't
>>>> see anything on launchpad about it.
>>>>
>>>> colin
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Not getting the same issue here.  Mine just says "Switch from [user]..."
>>> I don't have a user list either at log in, so that may be the
>>> difference.  I have to enter a user name at log in.  This change is
>>> discussed in detail in the archives but the code from cli is:
>>>
>>>           sudo -u gdm gconftool-2 --set --type boolean
>>> /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list true
>>>
>>> What I get is my standard log in screen when I attempt to reproduce your
>>> issue.  Maybe another can reproduce.
>>>
>>>
>> sorry for the repeat, managed to reproduce when I switched to the new
>> user and left the original user logged in.  the orginal user was
>> listed.  when I click on that user in the list cancel did not esc but
>> the switch user button drop me back down to my original log in screen
>> allowing me to re-log in the original user.  hope this helps.
>
> When I select one of the users shown in the shutdown dropdown list
> (not the switch from ... item) the login screen shown only has the one
> user, so I cannot get back to the original user.  I do not have a
> Switch User button there.
>
> I have taken the plunge and submitted this as my first bug report to
> launchpad.  I am old enough now that I do not care if someone points
> out that I am being extremely stupid for not seeing something obvious.
> :)
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm/+bug/548941

For the record this had already been reported
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm/+bug/532531

I would likely have found it if I had known that I was using the Fast
User Switcher.

Colin