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LemonBoy

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Registered: 2007-05-29

Posts: 7

Running two instances of kopete at the same time?

I have 2 MSN Messenger accounts and want to login to both of them at the same time.
Obviously running them both from the my single user doesn't work. and I don't want to run one of them as root. (altho it does work.) I also tried creating another user just for this purpose and running kopete via 'su user2', and it doesn't work. I also tried gksu and no luck.
any suggestions?

mouse256

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From: Antwerpen, Belgium

Registered: 2005-08-24

Posts: 247

Re: Running two instances of kopete at the same time?

Just add both of the accounts to kopete? I assume that's possible, I have 1 msn, 1 icq and 2 jabber accounts running in kopete...

LemonBoy

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Registered: 2007-05-29

Posts: 7

Re: Running two instances of kopete at the same time?

Hah, didn't know that was possible! well thanks.

hacosta

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From: Mexico

Registered: 2006-10-22

Posts: 423

Re: Running two instances of kopete at the same time?

well it is possible, and it is the best solution, but as a side note, to get X applications running as another user you need to:

userthatisrrunningX@myhost ~ xhost +localhost
otheruser@myhost ~ kopete

if you want to run something as root the prefered way to do this in kde is to use kdesu..