Bug#431022: gdm: second login not possible for same user (gdmflexiserver)

[Sven Arvidsson]

On Sat, 2007-06-30 at 01:07 +0200, Kiro Zimmer wrote:
> please add "AlwaysLoginCurrentSession=false" to the default gdm.conf.
> Or maybe leave a note in the debian/changelog that something changed.
> 
> Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> > This works for me. Are you sure multiple logins isn't disabled in
> > gdmsetup? I think the option for this is new in 2.18.
> 
> Thank you, that was the reason! ;-)
> But there were no changes made in gdm.conf, meanwhile the behavior 
> changed from allow to forbid...

This would break, or at least make harder, fast user switching. I don't
think the default behaviour should be changed.

See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=406226 for the upstream
discussion.

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Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
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