On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 10:09:48AM -0400, Sam Steingold wrote: > my wife and I each log in on one's own virtual console and start X with > "startx". each has one's own X window session, and we can switch > between them with C-M-f7 and C-M-f8 (obviously, we take turns using the What about using GDM instead of 'startx'? That's what my wife and I do, and it's incredibly trivial to set up -- edit /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf, and find the line that says '0=Standard' and add a '1=Standard" right after. > monitor/keyboard, but we do not need to logout to let the other use the > computer). I had to do some tricks to enable both of us to use > audio/video &c: I created a group "sound", added both of us to it, and > did "chgrp sound, chmod g+rw" for the audio devices. This worked OK > (although each upgrade and reboot reset ownership and permissions). To make this persistant across reboots, check out the file /etc/security/console.perms. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
