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I know how to switch users in console mode, that's easy as breathing.
The issue is how to have one X session open as user1, while having another X session open as user2, so when one person leaves and locks their screen/account, someone else can log into their account without user1 having to log out of the user1 account first, like in Windows 7.
It pretty much depends on which distro/desktop environment you are using. Just as an aside, to the best of my knowledge KDE was letting start another user desktop session long before microsoft saw fit to provide the facility. (Only started doing that with Vista unless I'm much mistaken.)
Just as an aside, to the best of my knowledge KDE was letting start another user desktop session long before microsoft saw fit to provide the facility. (Only started doing that with Vista unless I'm much mistaken.)
I'm fairly sure Windows XP allowed for fast user switching, actually now that I think about it, I seem to remember Windows 98 allowing for fast user switching (kind of a contradiction since "users" in Windows 98 weren't really users [in the traditional sense, with isolated profiles]).
This is actually a good question. I'm using Gnome 3.2.1 and it includes fast user switching. Not sure if this is common for other DEs though.
how to have one X session open as user1, while having another X session open as user2, so when one person leaves and locks their screen/account, someone else can log into their account without user1 having to log out of the user1 account first
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Originally Posted by rich_c
It pretty much depends on which distro/desktop environment you are using.
In other words, Comcastuser should indicate which version of which desktop and distribution, then someone could give specific (click on which menu and select what) instructions.
Next time I'm at my home computer, I could give specific instructions for KDE 3 on an obsolete version of Mepis. But odds are that isn't what Comcastuser needs.
But on the desktops where I looked for that feature, it wasn't very hard to find. So maybe you can just look for it and start using it.
In other words, Comcastuser should indicate which version of which desktop and distribution, then someone could give specific (click on which menu and select what) instructions.
Next time I'm at my home computer, I could give specific instructions for KDE 3 on an obsolete version of Mepis. But odds are that isn't what Comcastuser needs.
But on the desktops where I looked for that feature, it wasn't very hard to find. So maybe you can just look for it and start using it.
I'm fairly sure Windows XP allowed for fast user switching, actually now that I think about it, I seem to remember Windows 98 allowing for fast user switching
Windows 98 was a single user OS.
Windows NT and 2000 were multi-user OSes, but didn't have fast user switching.
XP was the first Microsoft OS with this feature. And as with pretty much all of Microsoft's innovations, they were last to market with it.
menu button (kickoff, if you are using kickoff) > leave > switch user
(right clicking on the desktop doesn't give this option, for some reason); Note also, that it might vary with kde 4.x version, as, say, KDE 4.2 was hardly 'feature complete'.
menu button (kickoff, if you are using kickoff) > leave > switch user
(right clicking on the desktop doesn't give this option, for some reason); Note also, that it might vary with kde 4.x version, as, say, KDE 4.2 was hardly 'feature complete'.
Okay, I managed to hack the config files to replace gdm with kdm, but now there's a side effect. For some reason port 6000 isn't used anymore; which means I can no longer open an app on another computer and fire up the window on this one. (By using the whole xhosts / setenv DISPLAY combo, etc.) I can't even find where X has opened a port using netstat -lptu. Should I start another thread on this...?
XP was the first Microsoft OS with this feature. And as with pretty much all of Microsoft's innovations, they were last to market with it.
We all know that first to market means absolutely nothing. Refining trends in technology is whats important in the real world (We don't make the things you use in your everyday life, we make the things you use in your everyday life BETTER. --for example the entire Japanese auto market slogan)
I'm curious, which Linux Desktop Environments provided fast user switching in 2001 when XP introduced it into their operating systems?
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