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#1 2008-10-02 21:34:11

lang2
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switch user?

Hi all,

In other "user friendly" distros (including Windowz), if user A locks the screen, user B wants to login, he/she has an option to do "switch" user. I know from command line, one can start a seperate X session. But how to do it with the login manager? I'm using Slim but open to suggestions.

Thanks,

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#2 2008-10-02 21:45:38

moljac024
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Re: switch user?

As far as I know slim can't do that.
You can use GDM as the login manager and lock the screen with gnome-screensaver.
Then user switching will work. Don't know about the KDE counterparts...


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#3 2008-10-02 21:53:57

lang2
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Re: switch user?

Thanks. Not a GDM and gnome fan. Xfce user here. If I can get it working without Gnome or KDE it would be great.

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#4 2008-10-03 23:08:29

iggy
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Re: switch user?

i don't know how to realize it exactly, but i know a solution:

it is possible to start more than one x-server. so the other user simply can login to tty2 and start a second x-server.

ciao iggy


sorry for my bad english smile

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#5 2008-10-03 23:22:50

moljac024
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Re: switch user?

Yes it is.
Just use xinit -- :1 for the second session.
You can put it in ~/.bash_profile so it starts upon login (If you have a CLI login, which I do and highly recommend)


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#6 2008-10-04 08:49:46

lang2
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Re: switch user?

Yes. That's what I did ..... before I had the tty issue: Right now, if I switch from X back to tty1, 2, etc, I'd have a blank screen and there is no signal to the monitor. Probably an ATI OSS driver regression. That's why I'd like to do it with an login manager.

Another thought: is it possible to start 2 slim on each tty with the rc.d script?

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#7 2008-10-05 19:36:09

gnud
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Re: switch user?

Really -- I'm not a fan of GDM either, but GDM has to be more lightweight than having two seperate X servers...

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#8 2008-10-05 19:48:17

lang2
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Re: switch user?

hmmm. I always thought that GDM does it through a seperate X server anyway.... Not so?

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#9 2008-10-06 14:14:37

moljac024
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Re: switch user?

lang2 wrote:

hmmm. I always thought that GDM does it through a seperate X server anyway.... Not so?

Yes, I'm also wondering about this.


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