Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (260 mails)

[Mario Streiber <mario.streiber@xxxxxx>]

Mario Streiber's Message from Thu March 31 2005 09:43:
> Hi all,
>
>
> I want to be able to start a second X session out of my current
> session. I know this question has been raised several times, and
> the start itself is not my problem. I have multiple entries in
> the Xservers files, and the second session comes up. No problem.
>
> But I am already logged in as the user under which I started the
> session.
>
> What I want is to start the new session as root (e.g. via some
> SUID program), and want the kdm login screen to appear so that I
> can choose which user and session type I want to start the
> session under. And I want to be able to do this out of any
> session type I am currently running (kde, gnome, xfce...)
>
> Any idea how to achieve that?

I found it on http://people.fruitsalad.org/lauri/stuff/README:

  kdmctl reserve <timeout in seconds>

This command can be launched from anywhere, any session.


Mario