Posted and mailed Chris Reeder wrote:
>>However, as you should know, linux is a multi-user O/S. Create a new >>user for your wife and her profile will be different. No profile >>selection required. Logging in and out does not require the restart of >>X. It requires the restart of the Window Manager (KDE, Gnome, whatever), >>but not X. Depending, of course, on how you have your linux box configured. >> > > It takes way too much time to log out of X, open up the programs I want, > reconnect to the Inet,etc, only to have to log back into my own stuff to > continue browsing. All that just to check her mail for her while I'm > still at the computer. It would be excellent if only the mail program > required login, and the browsers didn't. > > Anyway, no help found yet. > > Chris > Open a Terminal window. Type 'xhost +localhost' (to allow X to accept another session on the terminal) 'su - <her account>' (the - is important in order to get her paths) 'netscape' (run netscape as her) You can also look into creating a second X-session at another virtual terminal. I'm not exaclty sure how to do it, but am fairly certain it can be done. Let me try something... OK, this worked for me...(keep in mind, though, that I've enabled remote X logins): Ctrl-Alt-F1 to go to the first text console. Log in as a user. Type 'X :1 -query localhost' This created second virtual terminal for X with the same login screen I'd normally have. Log in as your wife and have an X session running on Ctrl-Alt-F8 that's her's, separate and distinct from your X-session on Ctrl-Alt-F7. Check out http://linux.nf for StepxStep instructions on configuring X for remote sessions.I've setup my son's PC so that Ctrl-Alt-F7 is the local X-session and Ctrl-Alt-F8 is the remote X-session. This allows me to log into my PC downstairs and do stuff while my wife is actually at the PC doing other stuff (or vice versa). If you have another PC laying around, it ain't all that hard to set up and you don't really need all that pwerful of a PC to do it (look into the Linux Terminal Server Project). All of this is off-topic for this newsgroup, though, but you should be able to find help on comp.os.linux.setup, or whatever NG applies to your distro. There's also quite a good linux user mail list at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users HTH, Tim
