On Sunday 25 August 2002 16:35, Kevin L Hochhalter wrote:
On Sunday 25 August 2002 12:54, Gerald Waugh wrote:
We recently bought SusE 8.0 and are installing it on everything... We have a workstation in the lining-room and have multiple users on the machine. VIA 800 Mhz ITX, no fans, 30GB HD, no CD, no Floppy....
It is time consuming to logout and login as another user... All users are using KDE
Is there a convienient way to swithc from one user to another... something like <ctrl><alt><Fx>
Login as normal, and then at the prompt type "startx kde -- :0" This will start KDE on screen :0, which you can access at any time by by pressing "control-alt-F7". Now press "control-alt-F2", which will take you to another console, where you can login again. After logging in, type "startx kde -- :1". This will start KDE on screen :1, which you can access by pressing "control-alt-F8". Basically, you can follow this procedure, and have as many people logged in as you have available tty's. I think that SuSE defaults to having six available consoles (tty1-tty6, or control-alt-F1 thru control-alt-F6) from which you can login. You can have X running on the others, with the exception of tty10 (control-alt-F10), which is reserved for messages. This way, nobody has to logout for another person to be able to sit down and use the machine. Just make sure that you lock your screen before letting somebody else use the computer :-)
I've got to remember the space in startx --<SPACE>:1 Also my the second session appeared on F4 rather than F8. It worked, but when I logged out KDM did not come back up any ideas?