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Multiple users have logged into my 14.04 desktop system. When I want to logout or lock my screen, the drop down menu shows a long list of many of the users who have logged in. I would really like to remove that user history from the drop down menu.

This list of users is NOT the same list of users from the lightdm greeter, this is the list of users you see in the drop down menu, once you are logged in. I have already set the lightdm greeter to not show the login history. That does not affect the lock / switch user menu drop down. Hope I made myself more clear?

Any suggestions would be a huge smile on my face.

Thanks

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Enter this in the terminal: 

gsettings set com.canonical.indicator.session user-show-menu false

And then reboot the machine. (In the other thread they suggest to use unity --replace & but it's always better to reboot).

Source: askubuntu.com

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  • For more info read up on man page for gsettings and look through /usr/share/unity folder – Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy Aug 16 '14 at 03:32
  • Xieerqi, your solution worked perfectly. Exactly what I was looking for. – rocker65 Aug 18 '14 at 14:30
  • rocker65, Glad I could help ^_^ – Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy Aug 18 '14 at 21:17
  • Gotta ask.... This works great if I run it from the command line while an X server is running. I want to run it in my puppet module to change this on many systems, and it is failing because it needs X. Is there a file that it updates that I can use in my puppet module instead? I can't figure out what gconf file this gsettings changes. – rocker65 Aug 20 '14 at 12:25
  • Probably I won't be able to help in this part, because I've never dealt with puppet module before. I'm running Ubuntu on a personal laptop. Can you execute a batch script on multiple systems ? My only suggestion would be to put that command into script. As for the file, I'm not sure. There's /usr/share/unity/indicators/com.canonical.indicator.session, which is one used in the original command, but that's all i know at this point. I'll let you know if i find anything else – Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy Aug 20 '14 at 23:02