Disabling Fast User Switching

**hundredpercentjuice** · April 17th, 2009

(First post, please alert me to any faux pas, etc.)

I'm administering a few machines w/ ATI video cards, which crash on fast-user-switching. (Login/Logout works correctly).

I want to disable the "fast-user-switching" applet, and remove the option from the System->Logout screen.

I tried setting /desktop/gnome/lockdown/disable_user_switching in gconf-editor, but that doesn't seem to do anything.

Gnome: 2.24.1
Ubuntu: 8.10

Thanks for your time.

**danl** · August 31st, 2009

I'd like to do this too under 9.04. I've tried everything I can find in these forums:

-removed fast-user-switch-applet using apt-get remove

-added settings for apps/panel/global/disabled_applets and desktop/gnome/lockdown/disable_user_switching in /etc/gdm/gconf.xml.mandatory/%gconf-tree.xml

The Switch User option persists. Is this a bug?

**kerry_s** · August 31st, 2009

Originally Posted by danl

I'd like to do this too under 9.04. I've tried everything I can find in these forums:

-removed fast-user-switch-applet using apt-get remove

-added settings for apps/panel/global/disabled_applets and desktop/gnome/lockdown/disable_user_switching in /etc/gdm/gconf.xml.mandatory/%gconf-tree.xml

The Switch User option persists. Is this a bug?

i'm using 9.04 and locked mine. can't remember which setting it was.

**danl** · August 31st, 2009

Thanks for posting the screen shot. Surprising that there is nothing related to user switching in your settings. I'm trying to add the "Log Out..." applet to a panel. On my system it includes both a Logout and Switch User button. Is the Switch User button on yours?

**kerry_s** · September 1st, 2009

Originally Posted by danl

Thanks for posting the screen shot. Surprising that there is nothing related to user switching in your settings. I'm trying to add the "Log Out..." applet to a panel. On my system it includes both a Logout and Switch User button. Is the Switch User button on yours?

yeah, that was the stock switch-user-applet.

**mightyiam** · October 12th, 2009

I'm looking to disable fast user switching, too. This is due to lack of memory in systems. I would like to avoid the use of swap and that in order for another user to login, the current will have to logout.

I'll look it up.

**mightyiam** · October 13th, 2009

Dear friends,

While trying to solve this issue using the information here, I've stumbled across two bugs which prevent this from working smoothly or at all. Please mark these bugs as affecting you in launchpad.

Blessings.