On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 22:35, SI Reasoning wrote: > I have not had a chance to play around with the 9betas so excuse me if > this is already in.... > > There is one feature of WinXP that I really like that they ripped from > Linux but made it simpler to use...and that is the idea of multiple > desktops for different users. It would be really nice if Mandrake would > create a choice to login into a new desktop without having to logout of > an existing one. It shouldn't be that hard to program I would think. > Just add an option like in XP to switch users or logout and have the > mandrake kdm/gdm automatically create a new X session if a new logon is > intitiated. You could then create a unified menu entry that would list > user accounts so that it would be easy to switch users from within a > desktop. Have all reentry with the option of being password protected.
If you're running GDM you can do this through the existing Mandrake menus: Configuration -> Boot and Init -> New Login with GDM ian.
