On 9/9/07, das দাশ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2007-09-09 at 01:09 +0530, Ravi Shanker wrote: > > > 3. recompile mozilla firefox with little HACK not to share the common > > comtainer > > Can some configure options be given like that? This is quite > interesting. Never tried that. > > > > 5. Make multiple user account on computer, say user1, user2, > > user3 ...In > > terminal login as user1 and open firefox from there. Since the > > preference directory for firefox will be all in user's specific dir, > > it > > wont be using same cache/ > > If you mean the solution is like opening a GUI terminal, and then 'su > user1', x-server does not allow to open another display. At least this > is what happens on Ubuntu. Even su into root, and then as root, 'su > user1' too does not allow it. >
typically you can do this.. 1) open a terminal $ xhost + 2) $ su - otheruser $ export DISPLAY=:0.0 (or DISPLAY=urip:0.0 ) 3) $ firefox for each user, repeat (2) & (3) in a different terminal. Karunakar _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
