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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=436524


           Summary: autologin - somewhat broken ...
           Product: openSUSE 11.1
           Version: Factory
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Critical
          Priority: P5 - None
         Component: GNOME
        AssignedTo: bnc-team-gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
        ReportedBy: mmeeks@xxxxxxxxxx
         QAContact: qa@xxxxxxx
          Found By: ---


So - in this beta and previously autologin hasn't worked (it seems); I enabled
it with a tweaked custom.conf.

*unfortunately* the new auto-login not only performs poorly, but occurs -every-
time you hit gdm. This contrasts substantially with previous behavior where you
could log out, and gdm would then let you tweak your settings, and/or log in as
a different user. ie. Autologin only happened during boot / on first start.

Sadly - with gdm if you enable auto-login; "Fast user switching" is more like
"fast re-auto-login-as-myself-on-a-different-X-display", and of course
(apparently) you simply can't change your default / saved session, as logging
out to gdm, immediately logs you in again as yourself ;-)

This is sub-optimal to say the least; and (I guess) is the default "[x]
Autologin" for OpenSUSE 11.1

I guess the fix involves having some special "first time" state that we push
into the main gdm daemon on 1st start; which is used to auto-log-us-in only
that once; on boot.


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