On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 9:38 PM, Tim Bolz <[email protected]> wrote: > My wife and I have have been sharing my main computer. Sometime she > needs to use it and I get on the other computer. However this can be > a problem. I use NXmachine to log into my box which she is on. The > problem is if she is using firefox. I can't open it up because > another instance of firefox is running. I would like to set her up > with own user account but she uses kmail on my account. I know there > is a way to set her up so she can read and write to my folder but be > in her own directory. On occasion she has to be in windows and all > she does is complain. She's familiar with Ubuntu and where everything > is. My last post was about time on X. She says I spend a lot of time > on the computer and I would like to see how much. If I make her own > account she can make it her own look and feel. She doesn't like it > when I change things. I think it will be easier on her too. > > Thanks > Tim
You can run multiple X servers on the main computer. That way you can switch between her window and your window using ctrl-alt F7 ctrl-alt F8 Just do ctrl-alt F6 you will get a virtual console with a login prompt. then login to your wife's account then do startx -- :1 this will start another virtual server on console 8 when you want to switch back to your account use ctrl-alt F7 and to switch to her account use ctrl-alt F8 I don't know how this will work with NXmachine, but you can find out. Bill _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
