On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 07:03:22AM +1100, Graham Williams wrote: > At any time on one machine (home machines running Debian unstable) I > allow multiple users to have their X sessions running concurrently > (e.g., on tty7, tty8, etc). I've not yet figured out how to get > gnome-volume-manager working happily in this situation.
My initial reaction is "sorry, you loose". You are in a situation where g-v-m just won't work. By automatically mounting a device the first user that mounts the device "owns" it, i.e. only this user and root can unmount this device (it's what the "user" option does) I can't imagine a sane way to deal with this. There's no "current" desktop really. It's just two processes cooperating. The X server "knows" which desktop is active because it arbitrates access to hardware and it cooperates with the other X server accessing the hardware. You could signal g-v-m to go and "sleep" when the desktop changes, but I'm not aware of a mechanism for the X server to inform applications of something like this. This still leaves you with the other problem: user A mounts and user B wants to unmount it. Sorry, Marcelo
