On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 22:59:09 +0000 (UTC) Eamon Caddigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip] > > > > Proper fast user switch would be such a killer cool app, I hope you > > do it. > > I'd probably never do it alone. Instead: anyone else interested in > this, please drop me an e-mail. If there's enough people willing to > work on this, I'm sure we could have some code written soon. Mostly, I > need help recognizing all of the potential "got'chas" that currently > arise from running multiple Xsessions that we'll need to address. > > Work on the cool rotating rectangular-solid, textured with each > desktop, can come later. ;) You know, you _can_ run multiple xdm (wdm/gdm/kdm, whatever-dm) sessions similar to what I mentioned. You just need to add some lines for it in /etc/X11/?dm/Xservers. You can even run logins from remote systems (assuming you've turned on that feature, I believe now it's off by default). So the only "problem" you need to overcome is how to avoid the clunky <Ctrl>+<Alt>+<Fn> sequence, and that should be simple enough to code up. It's just a key sequence passed to the VT manager that isn't first intercepted by X or another program that has focus. Necessity is the mother of all hacks (and kludges, too). I just don't feel the necessity. In fact, I'd rather not my kids were changing VTs/X sessions all over :-). Ciao, David A. Bandel -- Focus on the dream, not the competition. Nemesis Racing Team motto GPG key autoresponder: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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