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:
>>
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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.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >
>> >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.
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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.
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
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