On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 11:23, Richard Esplin wrote: > 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
So we have to tell our users to "pay attention" and "be careful?" That'll go over real well :) The problem is everyone is used to log into a couple different boxes at a time with HP-UX and cde with no problems. It is a handy thing to be able to do at times. Bryan > > 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? > <snip> > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
