On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 12:47 PM, William Jon McCann <mccann@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Reid, > > > > On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Reid Rivenburgh <reidr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 11:17 AM, William Jon McCann <mccann@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Reid Rivenburgh <reidr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > ... > > > > > > > But now I'd like to use the built-in user switching, since it probably > > > > does a better job of managing permissions and resources. I have the > > > > applet installed, so I can click on that, go to "Other...", and get > > > > the gdm login. That works fine. But I don't know how to call it from > > > > xautolock. Is there a way to do that? If not, should I submit a > > > > bugzilla feature request? I think I basically just need some way to > > > > invoke it from the command line. > > > > > > You should be able to add something like the attached script into your > > > system-wide session autostart configuration. > > > > Great, thanks, Jon. I will give it a try later. I'm not quite sure I > > understand what it's doing; I wasn't aware of gdmflexiserver. Does it > > need to run as root? > > What it is doing is watching for messages from gnome-screensaver. > When it detects a message that indicates that the user session is idle > then it will run gdmflexiserver to cause a switch to a GDM login > screen. The gdmflexiserver command will switch to an existing GDM > screen if one already exists on the current seat, or it will create a > new one and switch to it. > > It does not have to run as root. Well, that certainly sounds perfect. If I'd only known about the powers of dbus-monitor and gdmflexiserver, but I had no idea to even look for those things. Thanks again! Reid -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
