On Tuesday 04 March 2003 06:24, Leon Brooks wrote: > On Monday 03 March 2003 10:37 pm, Danny Tholen wrote: > > Loki's Kohan runs only in 1024x768, but I hate using my desktop in that > > resolution (low refresh, small fonts). Switching during session would be > > nice. And certainly easier compared to starting a new xserver. > > Hmm... some of you will probably rate this offtopic, but if you don't drop > seeds you'll never get trees... > > Sun have this really cool feature for their SunRay and similar workstations > which allows you to log in to any random terminal with a card; when you > pull out your card your session is either suspended or shovelled into > /dev/null; when you plug in elsewhere it comes back up again.
<------------snip---------------> > Now... is there anything around which does all/most of this already? Any of > the 3D WM's, for example, that virtualise a lot of stuff without much of a > performance hit? > > Cheers; Leon I don't know if there is anything like this. But for sure it is not possible to use things like xv or OpenGL on remote workstations. For this you have to sit on the very same machine. But taken two steps lower is interesting enough. Didn't the gdm provides this "fast user switching" ? Could this be triggered by a card-reader and the right card. At least it seems interesting enough to keep this in mind for 9.2 doesn't it ? Another idea for authentification would be an usb-memory-stick. -- Regards Steffen ____________________ counter.li.org : #296567. machine: 181800 vdr-box : 87 ____________________ Please dont CC me, since if I have replied I'll watch the tread. Both mails will be filtered to the ML-folder. Thanks
