Comment 4 for bug 536801
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| Hugo Buddel (v-launchpad-hugo-doemaarwat-nl) wrote | #4 |
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Now (Lucid) there is no way to prevent locking the screen when switching users. The short description of this bug is misleading, since there are reasons to not want to lock the screen when switching.
Our living room comp has two accounts, both can login without a password. So we can switch from one to the other by using 'Switch From ..' without needing a password. Yet when I click on another user in the list directly, my screen is locked and I do need a password. This doesn't make sense, the list is supposed to make switching *faster*, for me it makes it slower.
This can be 'fixed' by not allowing the accounts to lock the screen at al, but now I can't lock the screen even if I want to. FWIW, I also turned of the 'lock screen when screensaver is active', which didn't help.