On Saturday 21 December 2013 22:37:47 Rob Owens wrote: > On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 10:31:16PM +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > My husband, a real technophobe, is going away for three weeks to > > house-sit. It is a last minute booking. He is going at 5:30 in > > the morning. I am giving him my netbook so that he can keep up > > with his emails. I have to keep it really simple or he will just > > freak out when I am 250 miles (c.400 kilometres) away and can't > > just lean over and help.. I.T. = PANIC! > > > > I wanted to set things up so that he could open a browser on > > which there is Google as home page. Browse if he wants. Then > > click on "Gmail" if he wants to look at his email. Then either > > (optimum solution) log straight into his Gmail account or offer > > him the chance to sign in to his Gmail account. > > > > But I have in the past signed onto my own account on my netbook > > and %$^&*^$£ Google won't allow me to do anything else. I can > > sign into my account, add Peter as an additional account, and > > then in future sign into his account from my account. But I > > don't want that. I want to sign straight into his account and > > leave it like that for him. Help! Is anyone awake and on line? > > Any ideas? > > In gmail, click on the "person" icon (it's blue on my screen) and > that'll let you select "Sign out". > > Next time you go to gmail, it should ask you for a user name and > password, and it'll let you check "stay signed in" or something > like that.
Should have. I had already tried. It didn't. :-( But thank you very much for taking the trouble to make a suggestion. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201312212359.52133.lisi.re...@gmail.com