On Thu, Sep  4, 2008 at 15:30:43 +0100, Phil Endecott wrote:

> For some reason I'm not seeing lines  in w, who or finger output for
> terminal emulators running inside my X  session, though I have seen
> them in the past.

Not all terminal emulators are setgid utmp.

> If you did have them they could in principle be for
> different users than the user who owns the X session itself.  The
> TTY=:0 line is the right one to use.  But  presumably Bart is not
> seeing a line like that, right?
>
Sounds like gdm doesn't register the session in wtmp. Sigh.

Cheers,
Julien



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