Change user in Cinnamon? [SOLVED]

[rodvitner]

I cant find out how to change user instead of logout. Is it not possible?

[cwwgateway]

I cant find out how to change user instead of logout. Is it not possible?

I hadn't thought about this but it's actually a very good question. The gnome-shell menu which has your username on it has that ability, but cinnamon doesn't have and (at least apparent) graphical way to do it. The ability is still there (I think), but I'm not quite sure where. I am not using cinnamon ATM, so I can't try, but if you click log out in the mint menu does a popup come up with Log out and switch user on it?

[DrHu]

I don't know what cinnamon offers on the menus, there seems a dearth of information
--but here goes, anything show for you in these sections, and I will guess that Gnome 2 utilities/edits and apart from some menu name changes would still work in the main..
http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/
http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/?p=99

What these forums are saying about it..
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=208&t=89411

[cwwgateway]

Just checked cinnamon, apparently if you lock your computer (lock button in the menu), the lock screen has a switch users button.

[rodvitner]

Just checked cinnamon, apparently if you lock your computer (lock button in the menu), the lock screen has a switch users button.

OK. Not very comfortable, but it works. Hope it will be a better and more intuitiv way in the future, but i mark this question as solved. Thank you for help.

[cwwgateway]

OK. Not very comfortable, but it works. Hope it will be a better and more intuitiv way in the future, but i mark this question as solved. Thank you for help.

My pleasure .

[andyandy]

Hi. Apologies for the thread-bump but I thought it was fairly relevant.

I tried Cinnamon for the first time this evening and really, really liked the look of it.

However, when I came back to the machine after a period of inactivity I needed to unlock my session. There was NO option to switch users.

Thinking this was an anomaly (and after reading this very thread), I logged out and relaunched a new Cinnamon session.

I chose the 'Lock screen' menu item, and was presented with exactly the same thing - No option to switch users, just a very empty looking window in the middle of the screen with a password field and an 'unlock' button, the time/date displayed at the top of the screen (centred), and my username with a padlock next to it at the top (right hand corner). Clicking (right+left) on the username didn't provide any pop-up style menu.

Any thoughts/advice on this? Is it supposed to work differently and provide a 'Switch users' button along with 'Unlock'? This is a fresh (4 day old) install of LMDE 64-bit, with everything up-to-date.

Thanks,
A.

[andyandy]

Sorry, just realised I should also provide the version of Cinnamon being used.

I've just checked, and it's 1.4.0-lmde1.


And further troubleshooting just undertaken:

- Reinstalled Cinnamon (BTW, does Cinnamon write config somewhere under ~/?)
- Tried creating a new user account to rule out it being something related to my profile, and the new account had the exact same problem.

This is a real shame, as Cinnamon looks seriously, absolutely superb - but this machine is swapped back and forth between my partner and myself all the time, and a lack of 'switch user' when unlocking is a show-stopper for now.

Thanks again.

[crossroadstech]

I found the cause and solution. The new display manager included with LMDE 201204 (Final not RC), MDM, renamed gdmflexiserver to mdmflexiserver. Gnome-screensaver, when it brings up the password prompt to unlock, looks to see if gdmflexiserver exists, before it displays the Switch User button.

To fix simply enter the following at the terminal:

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sudo ln -s /usr/bin/mdmflexiserver /usr/bin/gdmflexiserver

Now the Switch User button will appear when you lock the screen and the prompt appears.

I created a bug report on Github for MDM... Issue #1.

[jbrendel]

I found the cause and solution. The new display manager included with LMDE 201204 (Final not RC), MDM, renamed gdmflexiserver to mdmflexiserver. Gnome-screensaver, when it brings up the password prompt to unlock, looks to see if gdmflexiserver exists, before it displays the Switch User button.

To fix simply enter the following at the terminal:

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sudo ln -s /usr/bin/mdmflexiserver /usr/bin/gdmflexiserver

Thank you so much for this! After a recent upgrade to Mint 13 I noticed that I can't switch users anymore, not even with the old "lock your screen first" trick. But the creation of that symlink as described by you fixed it! Yay!

[igariox]

there is in menu SYSTEM TOOLS >> NEW LOGIN
you can just make a link on it