Bug#770615: mate-session-manager: Switching users don't work with MATE and Lightdm

[Mike Gabriel]

Control: severity -1 wishlist

On  Sa 22 Nov 2014 18:04:18 CET, Frederic MASSOT wrote:

> Package: mate-session-manager
> Version: 1.8.1-5
> Severity: normal
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> I use MATE and Lightdm (1.10.3-3).i
>
> In the Lightdm configuration "allow-user-switching" is enabled:
>
> allow-user-switching=true
>
> $ dm-tool list-seats
> Seat0
>   CanSwitch=true
>   HasGuestAccount=false
>   Session2
>     UserName='fredo'
>
> But the switching users does not work.
>
> In MATE, when I clic on the menu "System" --> "Close session" -->  
> button "Switch user" nothing happens.
> The window with the three buttons closes, but the login screen does  
> not appear. I stay on my session.
>
> In .xsession-errors file I have this message:
>
> ** (gdmflexiserver:19422): WARNING **: Unable to create transient  
> display: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The  
> name org.gnome.DisplayManager was not provided by any .service files
> GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name  
> org.gnome.DisplayManager was not provided by any .service files
>
>
>
> Regards.

After looking at mate-session-manager code, I am not even sure if this  
feature in relation to LightDM will be available for MATE 1.10. It  
definitely won't be in Debian jessie (MATE 1.8).

Regards,
Mike

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