I was being a bit facetious with the comment about multiple computers. I have used my laptop as a terminal to my desktop with reflection of the display of what was running on the desktop to the laptop (both Linux) although I no longer have any real need to do so. It was many years ago now and involved exporting the xwindows display over the network and setup of appropriate permissions to do so.
These days I might just use TeamViewer which I use to help maintain a non-computer literate friend's system remotely, but I haven't tried it from the laptop to the desktop over the LAN. Will have to give it a go although I see no reason why it won't work. Linux is still a multiuser system under the hood. I can ssh to my laptop which is logged in as one user form the desktop and login as a separate user with no problem and I can run GnuCash on the laptop as another user displaying on my desktop, while logged in as myself on the laptop and also running GnuCash natively on the laptop. ssh -X user@ipaddress xterm login then run gnucash in the xterm window works fine. David On Wed, 2024-08-14 at 18:48 -0400, Michael or Penny Novack via gnucash- user wrote: > > The other way is to run multiple users and switch between the users > > when you need to use a different set of books. Then the user > > preferences are unique to each user and therefor each set of books. > > Requires a logoff/login as the new user. > > ......... > > of course if you can afford multiple computers and network storgae > > then > > you can run a different set of books on each computer. > > > > David > > Well ........ separate computers not strictly speaking necessary if > our > OS supports multiple simultaneous users (logins). We are just too > accustomed these days to have personal computers. In other words, we > don't use our hardware that way (the device in front of us acting as > a > terminal for a login session on a different machine. > > Let's ask ---- anybody on our list using their 'nix OS that way > (supporting multiple simultaneous users, each with their own > screen/keyboard/mouse? Bear in mind not all that many decades ago > this > is how we all worked. > > Michael D Novack > > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
