On Saturday 11 July 2009, Rob Owens wrote: > > > > Suggesting another DE is sort like suggesting I speak another > > language. I've got 5+ years invested in understanding the crap pile > > that is KDE. Better the devil I know. > > Well I wasn't really suggesting you switch, just explaining why I can't > give any KDE advice.
Sorry, I misunderstood. > > > > Regarding the lockout problem you mentioned, are you logged in on > > > multiple computers at the same time as the same user? There are a > > > few apps I know of that do not like that. Firefox/Iceweasel for > > > one, and I think OpenOffice as well. > > > > Yes, that's my intention and yes, many apps resist this, KDE itself > > being the real thorn in my side. I might try again watching for > > version mismatch. > > Just curious, is there a reason why you need to be logged into multiple > machines at once? Convenience. > > I see this come up on the LTSP list every once in a while where a > school wants to have everybody in the lab log in as "student". The > consensus on that list is that it isn't worth the trouble to make that > work. Better to tape a username and password to each monitor (student1 > / password1 ; student2 / password2 ; etc). But I'm doubting that you'd > want to do this. > > -Rob I suspected there were no good answers when I posted. I'm surprised there weren't more "me too" replies. I would have thought others were inconvenienced by DE's one-time-one-place paradigm. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
