Via GDM you can configure it to run multiple X's. For example on one
machine my wife and I share I have gdm auto start on 0 and 1. Then I
login to 0 and when my wife wants on she does a ctrl-alt F8 and logs
herself in and we toggle back and forth throughout the day. Now that the
kids are using her machine a lot, I suppose its time to config them.
Also each user can run own desktop preference, so my wife logins to Gnome
I login to fluxbox. We got a new machine whos video card is poorly
supported (sigh) and we cant do this, and its the feature my wife
complains most about not having. Go figure. :)
Oh I suppose I could add my wife is a housewife with not a geek bone in
her body and not only does she use GNU/Linux she is a Debian gal. ;)
I think they call that SwirlPower. (pun and humor intended)
-Derek
On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, KevinO wrote:
> Logan Kennelly wrote:
> > 1) The ability to change graphical users (locally) without logging the
> > original user out.
>
> Two methods :
>
> 1) Type :
> $ su <username>
> in a terminal window and then execute as that user from there.
>
> 2) Go back to a virtual console and login as the new user. Then you can use
> $ startx -- :1
> and start a second X session as that user. The first GUI should be on
> <CRTL><ALT><F7> and the second one on <CTRL><ALT><F8>. Parameters after the
> '--' are passed on to the server. I have been able to run gnome, KDE and
> Xfce at the same time this way. The ':1' tells the server to use the second
> display and leave the one currently running alone.
>
> There should be a way to make this work using Xtart, startkde, startgnome etc.
> but I don't know how. I get 'don't own console' errors .
>
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