On Monday 19 August 2002 04:35 pm, SI Reasoning wrote: > I have not had a chance to play around with the 9betas so excuse me if > this is already in.... > > There is one feature of WinXP that I really like that they ripped from > Linux but made it simpler to use...and that is the idea of multiple > desktops for different users. It would be really nice if Mandrake would > create a choice to login into a new desktop without having to logout of > an existing one. It shouldn't be that hard to program I would think. > Just add an option like in XP to switch users or logout and have the > mandrake kdm/gdm automatically create a new X session if a new logon is > intitiated. You could then create a unified menu entry that would list > user accounts so that it would be easy to switch users from within a > desktop. Have all reentry with the option of being password protected. > > I don't think it should involve that much since the basics are already > in existance within linux.
This is a nice idea, but it has its own problems. The main one is that you are wanting to run more than one X server. That would eat up lots of memory, would make the system slow, and the user switching would be glitchy (how do you password-protect it?). A better solution would be to have it done on the window manager level (like windows does it), although that would require running the window manager as root (i think), and would mean that all users would have to run the same window manager. Not a good thing. The best solution would be to have the ability to switch applications between X servers (say, have your X server and a "dummy" one), but that would require changes in the basic X-Windows architecture (I think). This would be a complex task which would also break standards. It would be a pretty nifty feature, though. In short, there is no good solution that Mandrake can provide here. -- -- Igor
