On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 23:46, Kent West wrote: > techlists wrote: > > >I am running Sid with KDE, and was wondering if I am logged in and have > >some programs running, is there a way for someone else to log into x on > >the same terminal, without shutting down the programs I have running? > >that way when they are finished, I can re-log in and continue where I > >left with the programs that I originally had still open and running. > > > > > >stan > > > > > > > > > Sort of (which works very well in my opinion). > > Lock your screen using one of the lockable screen savers. > > Then press Ctrl-Alt-F2 to switch to virtual terminal #2. From there, > have the second user log in. After the user has logged in, have him > enter "startx -- :1". This will start a second instance of X on > (probably) terminal 8 (whereas your is (probably) on terminal 7). You > can then hotswitch between the two sessions with Ctrl-Alt-F7 and > Ctrl-Alt-F8. > > If you want, you can add a third X session, or a fourth, or a fifth, or > . . . . > > If you're using a graphical login screen, like kdm or gdm, you can > configure it to present a graphical login for multiple sesions instead > of using the text-based login. > > You can even do some "magic", and hook up a second monitor and > keyboard/mouse to the same CPU and run two people off the same box at > the same time. > > -- > Kent >
This seems to work well, but what about sound? In my experience opening up a second x session on a different Virt-terminal, the first session has the sound card, and will not work on the second opened x-session. stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
