[09:47] <yuhlw_> Hi, we have a setup of a group a desktop where the user can log into one of the many desktop. It uses nfs and automount. Unfortunately, when a user log in, a process try to figure out the list of all the users on this desktop. It mounts a lot of nfs-ressources, takes a lot of time, and the "system icon" on top right get a huge list of user. How can we do, as a sysadmin way, to get rid of this list of user ?
[11:45] <yuhlw_> No one ?
[11:47] <Trevinho> yuhlw_: so...
[11:47] <Trevinho> yuhlw_: I was looking at the thing
[11:48] <Trevinho> yuhlw_: but this is done always by indicator-session backend
[11:48] <Trevinho> yuhlw_: see http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~indicator-applet-developers/indicator-session/trunk.16.10/view/head:/src/backend-dbus/users.c
[11:48] <Trevinho> yuhlw_: so, if you don't want to patch it (patch could be accepted upstream) to add a setting not to list users...
[11:50] <Trevinho> yuhlw_: as a workaround I guess you can make org.freedesktop.Accounts ListCachedUsers not callable... I guess you can do that with some apparmor settings, so that these users won't be allowed to call this. Causing the indicator to fail to fetch the users list
[11:54] <yuhlw_> Trevinho: It feels for me a really hard task to patch this :/.
[11:55] <yuhlw_> I was somehow wishing/expecting a *simpler* solution. Thanks for your time and your response.
[11:56] <Trevinho> yuhlw_: the apparmor thing shouldn't be that hard though...
[11:56] <yuhlw_> Trevinho: ok
[11:56] <yuhlw_> Trevinho: I'll dig this one. Again. Thank you !
[11:57] <seb128> seems like a workaround, we could add a gsettings to indicator-session to not build the users list
[12:07] <yuhlw_> In our situation, we do have 2 issues: 1) unity try to find out the list of the user and their home. And for that, they nfs mount all the /home/*. 2) the top level icon, shows a huge list of users that is a bit puzzling when you do have 30 users.
[12:08] <yuhlw_> to add to the point 1) the process of mounting 30 different nfs mounts, takes time. And even more time when one of the desktop is off.
[12:12] <yuhlw_> Actually we find out that there is a setting named: com.canonical.indicator.session user-show-menu that do not show the list of user.
[14:23] <EdwardMorbius> hello, how can I debug Unity 8 not starting on 16.10 on Nouveau driver? Installed 16.10 on a spare partition to test Unity 8 but...
[14:23] <EdwardMorbius> black screen and nothing happens
[16:43] <mverkleij> Heya!
[16:43] <mverkleij> I had a question about the alt-tab switcher behaviour
[16:47] <mverkleij> I am missing a few windows
[16:48] <mverkleij> more specifically, I have a piece of java software that displays a dialog box, that is not included in the app switcher
[17:26] <dandrader> mverkleij, if it's run inside xmir, I think they will all be put inside the same x root window, which is what unity8 sees
[17:27] <dandrader> I don't think xmir/libertine has proper multi-window support yet....
[17:35] <bregma> dandrader, I think you mean Unity 8 does not have proper multi-window support yet: X11 has had multi-window support for decades