Multi-user workstation
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> TIA Gerald
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>
TIA
Gerald
You might want to give this a try. First thing, open up YaST2 and change the default run-level after booting to run-level three. Do this by starting the YaST2 control center, and then click on "System" -> "Runlevel editor", and choose "3: Full multiuser with network" from the pull down menu. Click on "Finish", and then reboot the machine. After re-booting, you will start out at a console, which will be tty1. 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 :-) This should be enough of an example to get you started. Welcome to Linux! Kevin -- The older a man gets, the farther he had to walk to school as a boy.
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?
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