Mike Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 15 November 2003 22:11, Eamon Caddigan wrote: > >> 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
Hmm, that does look neat. I haven't done anything with DirectFB before, but this might be worth playing with. Thanks for the pointer. >> 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. I'd probably never do it alone. Instead: anyone else interested in this, please drop me an e-mail. If there's enough people willing to work on this, I'm sure we could have some code written soon. Mostly, I need help recognizing all of the potential "got'chas" that currently arise from running multiple Xsessions that we'll need to address. Work on the cool rotating rectangular-solid, textured with each desktop, can come later. ;) -Eamon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
