David A. Bandel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --=.CT)Vc9(kosSjud > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 12:59:45 +0100 > humbaba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi >> I was wondering if it is possible to start an X program for instance >> xMule and then logout to let somebody else login and let him do his >> work, while xMule is still running. > > Yes. > > Go to a console screen (<Ctrl>+<Alt>+<F2> for example), login and type: > startx -- :1 > note that you _must_ use two dashes. This tells X to start on a > different screen. You can also tell it which vt to use if you want so > you know where it is (man X).
I've been using this method to allow my wife and I to share our computer when booted into Linux, but it's no match for the "fast user switching" features in Max OSX 10.3 and WinXP. Off the top of my head, better security (see above) and handling of ALSA, as well as a way to switch without using awkward key-combos[1] would be necessary before this stopped feeling like a hack. I've long toyed with the idea of created a set of scripts that made it a little cleaner, or possibly integrating such features into xdm (we're not using any display manager atm), but like most of my projects, it would probably go unfinished. Is anyone else interested in something like this? I always thought this feature would be worked into Gnome or KDE, or put together by a "user friendly" distro like Mandrake, before it trickled down to Linux at large. It might be a real feather in Gentoo's cap if "we" did it first. -Eamon [1] I know it's silly, but I always feel like I'm going to break my monitor when I switch between X sessions or virtual terminals using [<Ctrl>]+<Alt>+<Fn>. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
