-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Firefox attaches session information to the active X display. If user A >> starts FF then user B uses the same desktop as user A to start an SSH >> instance of FF as user A the session data is from user B, not A. >> > > A quick check shows that the 'ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED]' works OK. > Pulled up 2 firefox windows with different bookmarks. Don't want to think > about what would happen if you ssh to the same user. > > Note with ssh -X the display variable is different to the local one, > normally something like 'DISPLAY=10.0'. > > Simon. > Can you not just log in as a second user? I know that KDE on Ubuntu has handy GUI buttons for this (it is called switch users but all it does is open up more X sessions on :1 and :2 etc.).
Even a locked session has a button for switch users, so your original session stays as it is. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJAgvhwRXgH3rKGfMRAi91AJ9C6LoPNHs32ITNWbTZrtF6brtXqwCeLA9X efqO7h+uR7G8uyf5nplECps= =WXDW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
