Thomas Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Wed, 9 Feb 2005 17:08:18 +0000: > > Subject: Re: FVWM: Display Manager for FVWM > > Right. Then you are referring to the concept of "fast user switching". > Something that Linux doesn't have (but you can emulate it). > Essentially, you can start a known display manager on display(s) :0, :1, > :2, etc, and then have a locking mechanism available so that users can > switch between their displays. In that instance, the VTs will most > likely be tty7 for :0, tty8 for :1, tty9 for :2, etc., and whenever the > user wants to access theirs, they switch to it, and if there is a > screensaver running, they can enter a password to resume their work. > Although I do have to stress the importance of resource usgae here. It > may well be that you run out of system resources fast, if any one of you > is doing anything particularly intensive. > > > the logged in user and then back again without disrupting any running > > programs. At least the newest version of kdm has this feature.
If you're using gdm, run gdmflexiserver to start a new gdm instance on the next free vt, normally 8. You can then switch back and forth with ctrl-alt-f7 and ctrl-alt-f8. This works on linux. I don't know how the vts are handled on other OS. Cheers Ric -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL: http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
