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Hi,
I just found out how to trigger the "switch to another user session" stuff in gdm/ConsoleKit without the applet.
The problem was: I'd like to share a laptop with my girlfriend, but she doesn't like my environment (i3, vimperator, ...). So I installed a full Gnome desktop including gdm. Everything is nice, except the user switching stuff. You can use the gdm-user-switch-applet from within gnome sessions, but not from other ones (like my plain i3 one).
I started to look at the source code of this applet, read about dbus and stuff, and finally got something working. I'm so proud :-)
If you are interested, here's the script:
https://bitbucket.org/resi/gdm-switch-user
It seems possible to switch to any available session, but I'm satisfied activating the gdm session, at least for now.
Christoph
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