On Wednesday 20 November 2002 09:55 am, KMcLauchlan@chrysalis-its.com wrote:
I've always had just the one machine, so everything I do is local, which means I usually have an X session running KDE for most of my work/play, and occasionally I switch to a console (usually because I broke something, but we won't go there, just now... :-)
I have also logged in as multiple users simultaneously -- me with X and KDE, then root and a third account on consoles -- and switched among them with [Ctrl][F?] keys.
I understand that I could have somebody connect from another machine to my SuSE box, and run another session (complete with X and K?) with their own login.
My question: is it possible to have two complete LOCAL X and KDE sessions running for two users on one machine? My wife is GUI-only, and I want her to be able to login to her account on my machine when I'm not there, without her needing my password to shut down my login, first. In other words, while one is being displayed, the other sleeps, similar to the way multiple consoles can exist just a {Ctrl][F?] keystroke apart.
Can this be done? Is there a HowTo?
/kevin
----------------------- Kevin, If I understand you correctly you want to have two X/KDE sessions going at the same time? One session is you and the other your wife, being able to switch between the two with merely a Ctrl-alt-Fxx keystroke? If that is what you want/need, then this is how I do such things: Drop down to init 3 with Ctrl-Alt-F1 login with the users name & password (your wife?) type "startx -- :1 (new X session will start, new kde) Switch between yourself & wife with Ctrl-Alt-F7 & Ctrl-Alt-F8 There may be other ways and with Linux, I am sure there are, but that is how I was taught and it works very well for testing things without bothering your kde session or starting a new kde session for another user. Patrick --- KMail v1.4.3 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.1 --- Registered Linux User #225206