Silly Question - New Login

[Jim Cornette]

Berna Massingill wrote:

>>> Dotan Cohen wrote:
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>>> >That was a rather interesting post to read. But I've been googling for
>>> >some time now, as you interested me in what you had said about running
>>> >multiple guis in different consoles. I would like to have F7 and F8 as
>>> >two seperate gui's. How does one accomplish that? Thanks.
>>> >
>>> >Dotan Cohen
>>> >http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/artist_albums/402/pink_floyd.php
>>> >Pink Floyd Song Lyrics
>>> >
>>> > 
>>> >
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>>> Applications --> System tools -->> New Login
>>> 
>>> This will let you open different users for different consoles. There are 
>>> items like sound that don't work wel on the new login, but it is handy 
>>> for running KDE or XFCE in one console and Gnome in the other.
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>The command-line version of this (for those who are into such things)
>might be  "X :1 -query <machinename> -once".
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>I say "might be" because I just tried this on my newly-installed FC4
>system, and got (1) a blank screen with a little X in the middle,
>and (2) error messages when I went back to the original screen
>(with control-alt-F7).  I also tried it from a text console, with
>the same result.  
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>So I tried your GNOME-GUI way, described above, and that didn't work
>either, though the symptoms were slightly different -- blank screen with
>a cursor at the top, very similar to what was happening with the text
>consoles before I applied the "copy libvgahw.a from an FC3 system"
>fix discussed recently in this list.
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>Hm.  Anyone know what's wrong?  This can be a useful thing to have.
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>(Possibly the problem with my command-line way is that I don't know how
>to properly specify <machinename>, and/or there are firewall issues.
>I've tried "localhost" to start another session on the same machine,
>without success.  I've also tried the name of a remote host to which I
>*should* have access through its firewall (I can connect via "ssh"),
>but also without success.  When I've done this before, the remote
>machine and mine were both part of a local network, so there were no
>firewall issues.)
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>-- blm
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The properties in the command is the command "gdmflexiserver" on my 
computer. I ran this from the commandline and it brought up another 
screen for login on F8 While there was still a session on F7. This seems 
to be a function from gdm login manager.

Jim


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