On Thursday 03 July 2003 12:20 pm, Buchan Milne wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > We have discussed this feature before, and it seems it is trivial to get > this to work, since kdm seems to support it if the xdm config files are > right. > > Credit for finding this goes to Texstar, who posted it here: > http://pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?mop=modload&name=Forums&file=viewtopic&topic=1691&forum=18 > > Here is the detail, taken from the post and some replies:
This is really awesome. Way to go Tex. Does this raise the possibility of two users simultaneously using a machine. Imagie this, a dual-head machine with two usb mice and two usb keybaords. My wife and I are happily sitting in the same room both using the same computer. These incredibly fast macines have way more than enough power for many standard home users, wouldn't this be cool. I seem to recall somebody hacking a solution like this into XFree 4.0.x ... Okay I'm back from googling and it is even better than I thought. Svetoslav Slavtchev just wrote a HOWTO on this very topic. Here is the link: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/XFree-Local-multi-user-HOWTO/ This would be an absolutely fantastic feature to have available. For small environments, one could skip the additional machine to be a remote X-server, and just do a local multiuser. -- /g "Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read" -Groucho Marx
