On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 3:17 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> 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" & >> On my F8 system under Gnome the option is: Applications->System Tools-> >> New Login. But it is not clear why you want to use this and for what >> purpose. It looks like it allows you to login as a new user without >> stopping the status of the old login. >> >> The suggestions you received will allow another user login but so will >> logging off and logging in again. So is the purpose you are trying to >> achieve? > > He already said it in the original post: to allow two users to use the > machine at the same time. I interpret "at the same time" to mean "let > someone log in to his own X session on the same physical screen without > me having to log out of my session, or vice versa". It's called Fast > User Switching. I used to use this all the time when the rest of my > family didn't have computers of their own. I still use it on occasion to > try something on Gnome without having to log out of KDE. Patrick's interpretation of what I am wanting is fully correct. Paul -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
