Thomas Adam <thomas_at_edulinux.homeunix.org> wrote
on Wed, 9 Feb 2005 17:08:18 +0000:
>
> Subject: Re: FVWM: Display Manager for FVWM
>
> Right. Then you are referring to the concept of "fast user switching".
> Something that Linux doesn't have (but you can emulate it).
> Essentially, you can start a known display manager on display(s) :0, :1,
> :2, etc, and then have a locking mechanism available so that users can
> switch between their displays. In that instance, the VTs will most
> likely be tty7 for :0, tty8 for :1, tty9 for :2, etc., and whenever the
> user wants to access theirs, they switch to it, and if there is a
> screensaver running, they can enter a password to resume their work.
> Although I do have to stress the importance of resource usgae here. It
> may well be that you run out of system resources fast, if any one of you
> is doing anything particularly intensive.
>
> > the logged in user and then back again without disrupting any running
> > programs. At least the newest version of kdm has this feature.
If you're using gdm, run gdmflexiserver to start a new gdm instance
on the next free vt, normally 8. You can then switch back and forth
with ctrl-alt-f7 and ctrl-alt-f8.
This works on linux. I don't know how the vts are handled on other OS.
Cheers
Ric
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Received on Wed Feb 09 2005 - 12:30:38 GMT