On Wed, 2012-07-04 at 15:58 -0400, Brandon Watkins wrote: > I've noticed some poor usability when it comes to ubuntu's lightdm and > multiple users. Mainly: If any of the users are logged in you can't > reboot. > > Example: Lets say you have 3 users logged in. You are logged into the > admin account. You try and reboot from your session, it just kicks you > right to the login screen. Trying to reboot from the login screen does > absolutely nothing. No warning that other users are logged in, no > offer to reboot anyway with a root password prompt or something. The > only way for you to reboot is to switch to a tty and invoke sudo > reboot. > > This is very un-userfriendly and confusing for users that are not > experienced with the command-line. Such a user would simply not be > able to restart their computer, until they get all the other users on > their computer to enter their password and log out manually first.
It's simply a bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-greeter/+bug/861171 Marc. -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~unity-design Post to : unity-design@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~unity-design More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
