On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 02:35, Damian Gatabria wrote: > On Thursday 30 January 2003 02:57, Timothy R. Butler wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I'd like to propose an idea that I think could easily be implemented by > > 9.1 final and would be really great. I mean, wonderful. Most of you > > probably know the term "Fast user switching" from the Windows XP > > marketingspeak. Most of you also know that GNU/Linux is fully capable of > > doing the same thing. > > In Mandrake 9.0 (From KDE): > > K --> Configuration --> Start up & init --> New login with GDM > > This will launch a second instance of X running on tty8. you can have > as many X sessions open as you like, running different desktops, logged > as different users.... > > It's not "Fast user switching". It's called a multiuser OS, and it's far > ahead of XP in this respect, IMO.
One thing I haven't been able to get to work right with this is sound support. I can only use sound on the first X instance started. Is there a way to fix that? Wouter -- "I don't see why it matters what is written. Not when it's about people. It can always be crossed out." -- (Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens)
