Installing CentOS 6 on a lab full of workstations, and I want to disable fast user switching. With CentOS 5, I simply made sure that the "user_switch_enabled" entry in /etc/gconf/schemas/gnome-screensaver.schemas was set to false. However, that doesn't work with CentOS 6.
I've found various proposed solutions to this issue, such as
gconftool-2 --direct --config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory \ --type bool --set "/apps/gnome-screensaver/user_switch_enabled" "false" gconftool-2 --direct --config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory \ --type bool --set "/desktop/gnome/lockdown/disable_user_switching" "true"
neither of which work, either. Does anyone know the proper way to disable user switching with CentOS 6?
Thanks!
--- Mike VanHorn Senior Computer Systems Administrator College of Engineering and Computer Science Wright State University 265 Russ Engineering Center 937-775-5157 michael.vanhorn@wright.edu http://www.cecs.wright.edu/~mvanhorn/
michael.vanhorn@wright.edu:
Installing CentOS 6 on a lab full of workstations, and I want to disable fast user switching. With CentOS 5, I simply made sure that the "user_switch_enabled" entry in /etc/gconf/schemas/gnome-screensaver.schemas was set to false. However, that doesn't work with CentOS 6.
I've found various proposed solutions to this issue, such as
gconftool-2 --direct --config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory \ --type bool --set "/apps/gnome-screensaver/user_switch_enabled" "false" gconftool-2 --direct --config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory \ --type bool --set "/desktop/gnome/lockdown/disable_user_switching" "true"
neither of which work, either. Does anyone know the proper way to disable user switching with CentOS 6?
There is an open Bugzilla case about this: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=744281 - which doesn't seem to be going anywhere ...
We've applied the patch available from https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=598255 to the gnome-session SRPM - which works for us (with the above gconf settings)
James Pearson
On 7/8/13 5:57 PM, "James Pearson" james-p@moving-picture.com wrote:
We've applied the patch available from https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=598255 to the gnome-session SRPM - which works for us (with the above gconf settings)
Interestingly, I have just done the same thing, but the user switching is still enabled and functioning.
--- Mike VanHorn Senior Computer Systems Administrator College of Engineering and Computer Science Wright State University 265 Russ Engineering Center 937-775-5157 michael.vanhorn@wright.edu http://www.cecs.wright.edu/~mvanhorn/
Vanhorn, Mike wrote:
We've applied the patch available from https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=598255 to the gnome-session SRPM - which works for us (with the above gconf settings)
Interestingly, I have just done the same thing, but the user switching is still enabled and functioning.
I've just 'downgraded' gnome-session to the default version - and now when I logout, I have a (working) 'Switch User' button on the 'Log out of this system now?' window
Upgrading to our modified gnome-session RPM and, after a reboot, that button is gone ...
James Pearson
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