Hi,

I use FC3 and I want to switch between 2 users in X. I don't want to run one of them as a local VNC server. I'm looking for something similar to the "Switch user" function in Windows XP. I remember seeing support for something similar in Mandrake 8 (not sure - was loooong back). But it was limited in the fact that the second user had to logout for the first user to get access to X. It was more like a stack. At the minimum I would like to do what Mandrake supported, but a true switch user functionality would be better. If you know how to do this, please help me out.

Thanks in advance,
Sarav

You can use gdm to log in another user in a nested window. Basically you will have two users logged into the same display at the same time and you can swap between the two without logging out.

I don't have much experience with Gnome and GDM, but here's a page I threw together a while ago for how to do this with KDE and KDM. Ironically, I got the basis for the page from a Red Hat developer page (it's cited so you can look there too):

http://corey.xmgfree.com/linux/kdesessions.html