Re: Blocking on user switching: redux

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On Thu, 2020-04-16 at 16:16 +0200, Kamil Paral wrote:
> I use the functionality daily, so I'm biased, same as mattdm. I consider it
> really a basic desktop functionality. On our home laptop, my wife never
> logs out. Why would she, she just closes the lid and the laptop goes to
> sleep. When I want to do something, I simply log it as my own user, do what
> I need, and again shut the lid. I reboot the laptop twice a month when I
> apply updates. There is almost never just a single user logged in. The idea
> that we only validate Fedora for a single-user scenario, where the whole
> system can be used just by a single user at any moment, feels... almost
> obscene given our UNIX heritage :-) In the past when we had some user
> switching issues, it was a huge pain for me, because my wife will never
> remember Ctrl+Alt+Fx shortcuts to workaround a framebuffer switching
> problem. And constantly making sure the other person is not logged in, and
> asking him/her to log out if he/she is, is nothing but a headache. It makes
> the home laptop use case completely broken. Not to mention it's really hard
> to answer her questions about why we're using something that broken.

My use case is slightly different. I like to be able to log into a
basic user configuration to test something, without logging out of my
current session. That second desktop might even be running Gnome rather
than KDE. Would that also count as a blocker?

poc
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