switch user - was Re: [opensuse] Multi-user desktop question
- From: Gavin Chester <gavin.chester@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 23:23:19 +0800
On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 14:37 +0200, Will Stephenson wrote:
On Wednesday 11 April 2007, Mark Goldstein said:
(I'm using KDE menu style, but almost sure there is the same option in
SuSE style).
openSUSE menu button->Leave->Switch User->...
Will
FYI:
Having multiple sessions open for multiple users is easy once you've
know the 'trick', and you can do it with any distro and any window
manager by virtue of 'X'. IOW, kde makes it easy via the menu option,
but you can do it without kde, too. You can even have one user logged
into the same machine using kde, and then another using gnome and
another using icewm, whatever you choose. It's all to do with virtual
terminals. Here's how:
1/ hit ctrl+alt+F2 for the first new virtual terminal (VT); ctrl+alt+F3
for the next; and. so on up to F6, if needed.
2/ you will get prompted with the basic black-screen login in each VT.
Enter a user name and password. Some systems will allow more than one
login for the same user so you can login as yourself in the new VT.
3/ enter this command to start your default window manager in VT #1 =>
"startx -- :1".
4/ You can specify a window manager different to your default by
entering the relevant command, such as "startx gnome-session -- :1"
"startx kde -- :1" "startx icewm -- :1" Note the syntax must be
exactly as given or it won't work.
5/ you can switch back to your original session by hitting ctrl+alt+F7
at any time and then back over to your new VT by hitting ctrl+alt+F8.
6/ if you want to you can lock your first session to protect it from
another user before hitting ctrl+alt+F2 for them to login into their new
session while yours is still running.
It sounds a bit daunting, but it's really easy once you get the hang of
it, and then you're free to do it using any system and any window
manager. HTH.
Gavin
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