On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 08:07 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 01:47 -0600, Callum Lerwick wrote:
On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 09:24 +1100, Darren Steven wrote:
Hi,
Just one question about this thread. Are local and remote the same user? If so, won't there be some reuse of the daemons etc that handle dbus interaction etc.
I know with kde that it is a bit scary running 2x sessions as the same user. Things don't always behave. Not sure about gnome
GNOME brings up a dialog warning you that you're already logged in if you try and log in twice. Its not very strongly worded, but the implication is "please don't do that".
One of the more annoying things is you can't run more than one copy of Galeon. Trying to launch a second copy only results in the original copy opening a new window in the original session. And the gnome panel tends to get a bit flaky. Etc...
IMHO this is really broken. You should be able to log in to GNOME more than once. After all, you can log in as many times as you want to a shell. Seems like a horrible regression of functionality as far as unix philosophy is concerned.
Hmm, what the heck for?
We have set the following in /etc/profile.d/gconf.sh (and csh equiv): export GCONF_SHARED_LOCKS=1 export GCONF_GLOBAL_LOCKS=1
This allows our folks logged into GNOME on their desktop to also walk into a lab and log into hosts sharing $HOME. Without the above environment variables, GNOME always complained.
/Brian/