Howdy. Every year, CS hosts a site for the ACM Mid-Atlantic
Programming Contest.
http://midatl.radford.edu/ We'll be hosting
about 26 teams. Each team will use a Linux workstation, and accounts
are wiped clean and recreated before and after a practice session.
We're running Ubuntu 9.04 (jaunty) Linux on our contest computers.
Teams can use either KDE or Gnome. So actually we're running
Kubuntu, which starts kdm instead of gdm. Apparently there is a bug
in the user switcher such that under Gnome, it does not work with kdm.
When a team account starts a Gnome session for the first time, they
get an error window that warns that "User Switcher has quit
unexpectedly ...". They need to click on "Don't reload" to make it
go away.
We do not need the user switcher for the contest, and we'd rather not
have the teams be confused / bothered by the error window. I've tried
all sorts of things with the gnome / gconf / etc setup to try to have
the user switcher not be loaded / attempted, but to no avail.
Question: Does anyone know how to tweak the Gnome or gconf setup such
that when an account is created and the user starts Gnome (or KDE) for
the first time, the User Switcher feature will not be included in the
setup at all, and thus not generate the error window?
Thanks.
--
Daniel E. Singer, System Administrator
Dept. of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham NC 27708 USA
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