-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 15 November 2003 22:11, Eamon Caddigan wrote:
> > 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. You could try qingy. A replacement for getty which can punt you straight into whatever WM you wish (or a text console) from which ever vc you happen to be at. I can login on vc1, lock my desktop, then someone else with access can switch to vc2 and login to their own xsession. Very cool > 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. Proper fast user switch would be such a killer cool app, I hope you do it. - -- Mike Williams -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/tqa+InuLMrk7bIwRAk2mAJ4rGX4C/1bth/W2ks/MJC5pQpJERQCgr0cm 7KmsZ+UYzG9N0WQMfciYCXQ= =Q5Fh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
