<quote who="Shaun Butler"> > My home PC runs Fedora Core 1 with the Gnome Desktop. My wife and I have > separate user accounts so we can both log in and use our own mail clients, > have our own desktop settings etc. The one thing that I am sick of is > having to log out of each others' accounts and then log into our own to > read email etc. > > Windows XP has functionality which enables you to switch between users > quickly. Is there a way in linux to be able to switch users quickly > without logging off one user and then logging onto the other?
Totally - GNOME has had this feature for ages! :-) You can even run another session in a little window in your existing session. The two menu items that will help you out (yes, they should be in more sensible locations): Applications > System Tools > New Login Applications > System Tools > New Login in a Nested Window The second will only appear if you have xnest installed, and will launch a new login screen in a window, rather than as a full screen display. Switching between the logins is a little bit harder than Windows XP, because we haven't nicely integrated it into the UI as much, but you only need to hit Ctrl-Alt-F7 (the normal first display) and Ctrl-Alt-F8 (for the second display). Hopefully this functionality will be exposed in a much nicer way during the next GNOME development cycle. :-) - Jeff -- GUADEC 2005: Stuttgart, Germany http://2005.guadec.org/ "Applications are just kernel testcases." - Andrew Morton -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
