Two X and KDE sessions locally? Simultaneously?
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
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
On Wednesday 20 November 2002 16:32, Patrick wrote:
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
A second X session looked interesting to me, so I had to try it, but sorry, doesn't work for me. My configuration: SuSE 7.2 with XF86 4.2.0 and KDE 3.0.4 without graphic login manager. Effect: The X session for the second user on CTRL-ALT-F8 is simply the X background. For the first user I had "xhost +localhost" in use and the new KDE session (for the second user) was started on CTRL-ALT-F7 with some conflict between the KDE sessions. Now the positions of the icons on the desktop of the first KDE session was messed. On a second try this time without "xhost +localhost" and after restoring the Desktop, there just was no second KDE session, only the X background on CTRL-ALT-F8. So, be warned, it doesn't work for everybody and maybe you need your backup :) Nils
Hi, I successfully use this feature for some time now: - Loggin in on F7 via KDM - switching to F5 - loggin in my wife - startx -- :1 starts further KDE-Session on F8 This works fine since SuSE 7.3, actually 8.0 Gruß ce ====== Installation von SuSE 8.0 auf einem Dell Inspiron 8200 http://home.t-online.de/home/mchristoph.eckert/inspiron8200/ ======
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