Light Display Manager

Multiseat: only first seat session is marked as "active" in ConsoleKit

Bug #1075125 reported by Laércio de Sousa
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Light Display Manager
In Progress
Undecided
Richard Hansen
lightdm (Ubuntu)
In Progress
Undecided
Richard Hansen

Bug Description

Is there a way LightDM could deal with ConsoleKit so that all LightDM seats can have "active" sessions as seen by ConsoleKit?

Currently, when I set two or more seats with LightDM, only the first one is marked as active in ConsoleKit (as you can see in the output of command "ck-list-sessions"). The olher seats, once marked as "inactive", are not allowed by default to e.g. mount removable media.

Just for comparison, a patched GDM[1]+ConsoleKit[2] combination maintained by Huo & Cameron at Oracle, available in a7x's multiseat PPA, can give an active CK session for each seat.

[1] http://git.gnome.org/browse/gdm/log/?h=wip/multi-seat

[2] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/ConsoleKit/log/?h=wip/multi-seat

Tags: multiseat

Related branches

lp://staging/~rhansen/ubuntu/saucy/lightdm/multiseat
lp://staging/~rhansen/lightdm/multiseat
Rejected for merging into lp://staging/lightdm
Laércio de Sousa (community): Disapprove
Robert Ancell: Needs Fixing
Alberts Muktupāvels (community): Approve
PS Jenkins bot: Pending requested
Diff: 301 lines (+85/-11)
8 files modified
data/lightdm.conf (+13/-0)
src/seat-unity.c (+18/-4)
src/seat-xlocal.c (+16/-4)
src/seat-xremote.c (+6/-2)
src/seat.c (+7/-0)
src/seat.h (+2/-0)
src/x-server-local.c (+21/-1)
src/x-server-local.h (+2/-0)
Laércio de Sousa (lbssousa)
summary: - Multiseat: only one seat is marked as "active" in ConsoleKit
+ Multiseat: only first seat session is marked as "active" in ConsoleKit
Richard Hansen (rhansen)
tags: added: multiseat
Revision history for this message
Alexandre Magno (alexandre-mbm) wrote :

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/+bug/1192842/comments/2

Revision history for this message
Richard Hansen (rhansen) wrote :

ConsoleKit is going away, and will be completely replaced by systemd's logind in saucy. Partial support for logind is already in raring. I have some changes to LightDM in progress to add more complete logind multiseat support. If you are using Ubuntu, please try installing the version of LightDM in my PPA (<https://launchpad.net/~a7x/+archive/multiseat>):

    sudo apt-add-repository ppa:a7x/multiseat
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get upgrade

More complete instructions can be found by visiting the PPA page.

Changed in lightdm:
assignee: nobody → a7x (a7x)
Changed in lightdm (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → a7x (a7x)
Changed in lightdm:
status: New → In Progress
Changed in lightdm (Ubuntu):
status: New → In Progress
Revision history for this message
miramir (gmiramir) wrote :

Possible duplicate https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm/+bug/1211892

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