[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
James and Jeff - Thankyou very much for your responses. I've tried both suggestions and they both work fine. Pressing <crtl><alt><F8> is a hell of a lot easier than having to log out of one account and logging into the other!Hi
User a has a completely normal desktop. She is unaware that there is another.The advantage of using gdmflexiserver is that it is dynamic (only invoke new
User b has a completely normal desktop. She is unaware that there is another.
Choose which desktop you wish to own with <ctrl><alt> and continue.
The screen-saver even obeys the rules of the visible desktop, while the
invisible DT is ignored. We do, and have for years, run with 4 desktops.
This is how it does work, not a theory of how it may or may not work.
X servers and greeters when required) and it integrates nicely into things
like xscreensaver's locking functionality. You can set up multiple X servers
manually, sure, but that's much further away from what XP has, and 'normal'
users won't be looking to set things up like that.
The beast is dead! but I still don't agree:
For me: user c and d don't know, and don't want to know computer stuff. They do <ctrl><alt>F3 and F4 and each has their familiar world: login, use, exit etc
User a runs his session, starts other sessions on F5, F6 etc as required, can relinquish the console for a cuppa while b, c or d check mail and can continue at his lesuire. I contend that <ctrl><alt>F3 is simpler than any mouse-menu-option.
This is a way, if you like it, use it, if you don't ditch it. Even more so as c, d use kde, and gnome, a and b use icewm.
James
One thing I have noticed is that the second account (i.e. the user who logs in after the first user) seems to have trouble with the following:
- Audio Device - Gnome says that there is no audio device on the second user whereas it is working fine one the desktop/session of the first user
- Digital Camera - When I plugged my digital camera in and tried to download my photos using gtkam, I was unable to "connect" to the camera in the second user's session but I was able to successfully connect using gtkam in the first user' session
Its almost as if the first user/session is "capturing" those items rendering them unable to be used by subsequent sessions?
Any suggestions would be appreciated
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