Jerry Feldman wrote:
On 12/10/2008 01:34 PM, Don Levey wrote:
Jeff Spaleta wrote:
In gnome, you can "switch user" from logout dialog once you are logged in, or from the switch user applet (which is active in the default desktop. it the applet showing your name) The switch user applet also gives you a pull down list of users who are currently logged in I think as well as letting you log in a new user into a new desktop session.
When you "switch user" who is not yet logged in, gdm starts a new greeter and lets the additional user login. You can think switch back and forth between logged in users using the say switching mechanism.
If you do multiple startx instances I'm not sure the user switching sees the multiple instances that way, startx might not run coordiated gdm's. I haven't personally tested that.
-jef
I see - thanks. I'm not running gnome, but KDE, so I don't think that'll work.
-Don
I'm coming in a bit late on this, but the switch user feature has been around in KDE for quite a while. I used it when I used to run SuSE.
After further experimentation, I've found that:
1) From within KDE, selecting "switch user" brings me the older version's verbiage regarding Ctrl-Alt-F7. However, The end effect is that this locks my session and gives me a password prompt. There is no opportunity to select a different user.
2) From within Gnome, I can indeed switch users via the "Logout" option. This does start a new X greeter, and I can login to a second session using KDE. The new session is at Ctrl-Alt-F7 and the old at Ctrl-Alt-F1. A third can be started, on *-*-F8.
This means that I must always have at least one Gnome session active, and I must use that as my control session. It also seems that there's a "mixed metaphor" in that the first X session is F1 but the rest start at F7. Is there, perhaps, a plan to at least fix the KDE switch user functionality?
Thanks, -Don