On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 06:08:48PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:33:45 -0600 > Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > thierry wrote: > > > > > Kent West wrote: > > > > >> Hope this helps you understand things. > > > > > > Thank you for these explanations, I was using, and wondering about all > > > this since I moved to linux,for over a year now. Thanks again. > > > > > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > >Kent, that has to be one of the best down-and-dirty explanations I've ever > > >seen. Certainly helped me a lot. > > > > > > > > Glad y'all got something out of it. I appreciate the comments. > > > > Now, just for kicks, did you know you can start up multiple instances of > > X, on the same box (say, one for you, one for the wife, one for the kid, > > etc)? > > > > Say you've logged into KDE. Switch to a virtual terminal (say, > > Ctrl-Alt-F2), and let the wife log in. Create/edit a "~/.initrc" file > > for her with the manager/environment of her choice, and then start X > > with "startx -- :1 &". > > > > Ctrl-Alt-F3 to the third VT, and let the kid log in. Create/edit a > > "~/.xinitrc" for him, and "startx -- :2 &". > > > > Now you've got three instances of X running; one for you, one for the > > wife, and one for the kid. You can switch between them with Ctrl-Alt-[ > > F7 | F8 | F9 ]. You can have KDE on one window, and Gnome on the other > > two. Or KDE and Gnome and Fluxbox. Put a password/screensaver on your > > screen to keep the kids and wife out of your setup. Now you no longer > > need to shut down your 14 programs and log out just so your kid can log > > in and play "beneath-a-steel-sky". > > > > -- > > Kent > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > That's about the same as the so much advertised "Switch User" feature in > windoze XP. > The big difference is that Linux/X can do this for ages ;)
I've been using this feature for ages, until I started using gdm. With a few configuration lines, it will do all this and give you separate login windows on each virtual console. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
