[SOLVED] Cannot switch user in cinnamon

miromanyth · 2016-01-27 00:09:57

I'm using Cinnamon with sddm as my display manager. I have 2 user accounts, myself and my wife. When I click "switch user" on the logout or lock screen it just blanks for a minute and comes back to my user lock screen but never gives an option to switch to another user. What gives?
Thanks!

Last edited by miromanyth (2016-02-09 12:01:51)

x33a · 2016-01-27 09:43:12

Have you tried that with both accounts?

Moving to "Applications and Desktop Environments".

miromanyth · 2016-01-29 14:32:36

I have tried both accounts. Interestingly, I installed GNOME and can switch users just fine within that DE. It seems that cinnamon is the only DE I cannot swap in which sucks because cinnamon has become my preferred DE.
Could it be a shortcut error within cinnamon? Is it expecting a particular display manager? I've tried GDM also to no avail.

Trilby · 2016-01-29 14:52:23

Pardon me if this is a silly question as I have very little experience with DEs and DMs, but you don't by chance have any autologin or default account set up, do you? Or perhaps something in Cinnamon like "Make this account the default account" upon login.

miromanyth · 2016-01-29 15:37:43

I don't have any options checked for a default account or single account or something.

miromanyth · 2016-01-29 17:37:21

To further elaborate - I cannot switch users with any combonation but Gnome and GDM. Plasma, mate, etc do not allow user switching with any display manager. This is very strange.

x33a · 2016-01-30 04:58:57

Have you tried the switch user option by clicking on the user icon in the system tray?

miromanyth · 2016-02-09 12:01:06

I was able to ultimately fix this issue by appending "nomodeset" to my boot parameters. Strange how user switching would be affected by this. Hopefully this helps someone else
Thanks for your time

Arch Linux

#1 2016-01-27 00:09:57

[SOLVED] Cannot switch user in cinnamon

#2 2016-01-27 09:43:12

Re: [SOLVED] Cannot switch user in cinnamon

#3 2016-01-29 14:32:36

Re: [SOLVED] Cannot switch user in cinnamon

#4 2016-01-29 14:52:23

Re: [SOLVED] Cannot switch user in cinnamon

#5 2016-01-29 15:37:43

Re: [SOLVED] Cannot switch user in cinnamon

#6 2016-01-29 17:37:21

Re: [SOLVED] Cannot switch user in cinnamon

#7 2016-01-30 04:58:57

Re: [SOLVED] Cannot switch user in cinnamon

#8 2016-02-09 12:01:06

Re: [SOLVED] Cannot switch user in cinnamon

Board footer