Silly Question - New Login

Berna Massingill bmassing at cs.trinity.edu
Sun Aug 7 09:11:36 UTC 2005


On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 10:08:21AM -0400, Jim Cornette wrote:

>>  Berna Massingill wrote:
>>  
[ snip ]

>>  >>>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.
>>  >>>     
>>  >>>
>>  >
>>  >The command-line version of this (for those who are into such things)
>>  >might be  "X :1 -query <machinename> -once".
>>  >
>>  >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.  
>>  >
>>  >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.
>>  >
>>  >Hm.  Anyone know what's wrong?  This can be a useful thing to have.

[ snip ]

>>  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.

Do you remember doing anything special to enable this?  I'm wondering
why this (starting a second session as you described previously from
a GNOME menu) would work for you and not for me.

-- blm




More information about the fedora-list mailing list