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Ignatz, You may have
figured this our already but for prosperity here goes... want
a graphical user switching interface KDE provides an excellent one. All you
have to do is make kdm your default display
manager. if
kdm is installed then
just edit thet file /etc/X11/default-display-manager change
/usr/bin/?dm to /usr/bin/kdm (props to Igor for that one). if
kdm is not installed use apt-get or synaptic to
install it. part
of this install
involves it asking you which display manger you want as default, just pick
kdm. then go into kontrol center and
under system administration there is
a login manager section. push the administrator mode button and then the Users
tab. if you
want the login manager to show the user names select the Selected users
button (your users should appear in the list in the center of the
window) you an also pick goofy
pictures for your users. reboot may be necessary
for changes to take effect. if
kdm is already installed and is the default then you
can just do the kontrol
center stuff good
luck Ignatz
Sol wrote: >I am a
recent convert to Linux, running Debian sarge/testing with KDE >3.2.2.
I am interested in setting up some sort of user switching, so >that my
wife can have her setup separate from mine.
I've been >especially
inspired by the switching available in the new Mac OSX. >Now I
don't need anything fancy, and I've found a few references to >this (like
this link, http://www.mepis.org/node/view/2083, though I >haven't
been able to try it out yet). Just want to be clear as to >what is
the best way to facilitate this. I will also need to be able >to switch
with an icon or something similar to make it simple for
my >wife.
Thanks for any help. > > > > I don't know
about an icon-based switch, but I've been using switching at
my house for years. After the
first person is logged into X in the normal manner (startx,
xdm, kdm, whatever), the second user can Ctrl-Alt-F2 to get to a
console,
log in there, and then start a second session of X with "startx -- :1".
The third person can log in (Ctrl-Alt-F3) and start a third session
with "startx -- :2", and so on. You can even
configure kdm to have a graphical login on each X
session to
make it easier, but I prefer the startx method
myself. Then to switch
between users, Ctrl-Alt-F7 to switch to the first session,
Ctrl-Alt-F8 to the second, Ctrl-Alt-F9 to the third, etc. I don't know
of any way to autolock the screen when leaving one
screen, but
a screensaver with a password might do for your needs (at my house, passwords
aren't an issue). -- |