Hi
> > 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!
>
> I've had this arrangement on my desktop for years so that the better half and
> myself can share the machine as Shuan described. One thing that I wanted to
> do
> was have the GDM login screen display which virtual screen it was running on,
> but never managed to get this to work. I was able to do it for the shell
> running
> on f1-f2, but I couldn't get which tty gdm was running on into the welcome
> message.
GDM (and I'm not using at the mo, so this is a RFM) does that in the
welcome message as
Welcome to this.box:1
I had thin clients on my server and had
myclient on myserver
$DISPLAY is your friend.
>
> I also never managed to solve the sound lock out problem. My system is
> running
> esd, and in theory esd sould manage/mix multiple audio out requests, but when
> the first user logs in and esd gets started, the esd process is owned by that
> user. Something also sets the permissions on the audio device to be u+rw only
> for that user, i.e no group prviledges. If as root you overrode the audio
> device
> to be g+rw, then the second user could play sound, but as soon as the first
> user
> logged out, esd died and the permissions of the audio device went back to
> root
> ownership. A better solution would obviously be for esd to be a system
> process
> started in /etc/init.d with a config somewhere that allowed the admin to
> define
> which users had access.
>
> I never found out which bit of code was setting the privledges but it smacks
> of
> "we know better" something we all critise Microsoft of and an attitude that
> is
The culprit is PAM. RedHat and SuSE do have (others must have) device-permission
files in /etc. Find them and edit. (I have only SuSE boxen in front of me),
there
it is
/etc/logindevperm
usually stuff like
:0 0600 /dev/amidi:/dev/amidi0:/dev/amidi1:/dev/amidi2:/dev/amidi3
:0 0600 /dev/audio:/dev/audio0:/dev/audio1:/dev/audio2:/dev/audio3:/dev/audioctl
becomes
:0 0666 /dev/amidi:/dev/amidi0:/dev/amidi1:/dev/amidi2:/dev/amidi3
:0 0666 /dev/audio:/dev/audio0:/dev/audio1:/dev/audio2:/dev/audio3:/dev/audioctl
And any conflicts are not an issue, eg me and her both play a CD!
Also SuSE is cunning: permissions / console eg :0 :1 etc.
> detectable in Jeff's postings on this subject. I think jeff should take a few
> humility pills, and perhaps maybe accept that even if he does know better, as
> end users, that's not what we want. I've actually given up using Gnome
> because I
> just don't like the direction the development is going. This is of course a
> personal thing and others may love it but for me Gnome has just become
> annoying.
> I can't get it to do what I want and I constantly have to battle to get it to
> stop doing things that I don't want it to do. Nautilus taking over my desktop
> is
> another example.
I mostly use icewm, but for a few things I need a desktop and kde has
the functionality (auto-mount your camera, display winders shares etc)
and its perfect for my 80 yo grandmother who has no hope of being taught
to keep Norton up to date, and not to open attachments ... she loves it.
James
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