I often run multiple KDE sessions in the CS labs. Occasionally I do run into
problems, but those are rare. The problem is that Gnome and KDE both use a
lot of configuration files that don't like to be concurrently written to. One
has to be careful to avoid these problems by not starting or shutting down
both instances at once, and avoiding other concurrent actions. I find it
easiest just to run Gnome on one machine and KDE on the other so that I don't
have to worry about it at all. A lighter weight window manager like Fluxbox
or WindowMaker shouldn't have this problem.
Window managers aside, some applications don't like to be run from the same
home directory concurrently on different machines. For example, Mozilla
doesn't like to have the same profile in use on two different machines. If
one pays attention, one can work around these problems too. It depends on the
design of the applications one wants to run, whether or not the application
likes concurrent use of its configuration files.
I know this is vague, but I don't have any more specifics at the moment.
Good luck,
Richard Esplin
On Saturday 06 September 2003 08:00, Bryan Murdock wrote:
> Some people here at work are complaining that they can't log into two
> different redhat 8.0 machines at the console at the same time (home
> directories nfs mounted, authentication through nis) without problems,
> using gnome or kde. It seems I've tried this in the CS computer labs
> before and had problems too. Has anyone else heard of these problems?
> Does anyone know how to work around them?
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