On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 22:58 +0100, Paul Smith wrote:
On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 1:36 AM, Bill Davidsen
<davidsen(a)tmr.com> wrote:
>> I am running XFCE on F9, and I would like to know how to allow two
>> different users to login on my machine at the same time. On F8, I
>> remember a menu entry
>>
>> System --> New Login
>>
>> but I cannot find it on F9.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
> I'm not sure I understand the problem... You have a user coming in (over
> network?) and they can't login? Or what?
>
> If you just wan't a session as another user, you use
> "xterm -e su - USER2" &
Thanks, Bill. Your suggestion of using the xterm command is a good
one, but how can one give to USER2 a graphical X session, for
instance, on CTRL+ALT+F8?
Basically you need to run a separate instance of the X server on another
virtual console. This is usually handled by the Display Manager (*not*
the Desktop Manager). Possible display managers include kdm, gdm, xdm
etc. (you can pretty much mix and match display managers and desktops,
e.g. kdm+Gnome). You need to figure out which one you're using and check
its manual, unless XFCE already has a built-in function for this as KDE
and Gnome do.
Or just Google for "multiple x servers".
poc