Re: x window / starting the desktop
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:33:45 -0600
Kent West <westk@acu.edu> wrote:
> thierry wrote:
>
> > Kent West wrote:
>
> >> Hope this helps you understand things.
> >
> > Thank you for these explanations, I was using, and wondering about all
> > this since I moved to linux,for over a year now. Thanks again.
> >
> Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>
> >Kent, that has to be one of the best down-and-dirty explanations I've ever seen. Certainly helped me a lot.
> >
> >
> Glad y'all got something out of it. I appreciate the comments.
>
> Now, just for kicks, did you know you can start up multiple instances of
> X, on the same box (say, one for you, one for the wife, one for the kid,
> etc)?
>
> Say you've logged into KDE. Switch to a virtual terminal (say,
> Ctrl-Alt-F2), and let the wife log in. Create/edit a "~/.initrc" file
> for her with the manager/environment of her choice, and then start X
> with "startx -- :1 &".
>
> Ctrl-Alt-F3 to the third VT, and let the kid log in. Create/edit a
> "~/.xinitrc" for him, and "startx -- :2 &".
>
> Now you've got three instances of X running; one for you, one for the
> wife, and one for the kid. You can switch between them with Ctrl-Alt-[
> F7 | F8 | F9 ]. You can have KDE on one window, and Gnome on the other
> two. Or KDE and Gnome and Fluxbox. Put a password/screensaver on your
> screen to keep the kids and wife out of your setup. Now you no longer
> need to shut down your 14 programs and log out just so your kid can log
> in and play "beneath-a-steel-sky".
>
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> Kent
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That's about the same as the so much advertised "Switch User" feature in windoze XP. The big difference is that Linux/X can do this for ages ;)
Andrei
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