On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 15:54 -0500, Matt Morgan wrote: > I don't know how much will help the original poster, but ... does Fedora > yet have that tool where you can have multiple people logged in at once, > analogous to Windows XP? I have it in Mandrake at home (I think--I never > use it). But I forget what it's called. I am not aware of any GUI tool that does this for Fedora. Does the Mandrake tool allow the "switched-to" users to play audio, change volume, watch TV, use USB cameras/scanners, etc? If so it would be nice for someone to port it to Fedora. It is not hard to achieve a similar effect on Fedora using standard hot keys. You simply modify gdm.conf to always start 2 X servers, then pressing <CTRL><ALT><F7/8> will switch between them. My PC is set up in this way so that my wife and I can both use the PC without having to log out - especially nice when I am in the middle of something and don't want to log out while she checks email, etc. My wife actually told me that she prefers this to XPs design - she just sits down, presses the keyboard and her X session is there. i.e. You don't have to pretend to log out, then select Switch User from a dialog. To enable this "feature", edit /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf. Search for [servers] and uncomment server 1. The next time gdm is restarted there will be 2 X sessions running. The down side is that, by default, all hardware except the keyboard and mouse is "owned" by the first user to log in. User 2 cannot play music, use the scanner, etc. without modifying additional permissions. I posted a message a few days ago to this list describing how to modify permissions so that all users can be given access to extra hardware. Regards, Kevin Freeman
