Setting up multiple simultaneous sessions

Simon Slater pyevet at aapt.net.au
Wed Apr 25 01:20:01 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 11:40 +0100, Scott van Looy wrote:
> Today Simon Slater did spake thusly:
> > 	Now GDM is configured properly (thanks again Mike), I would like to set
> > up this FC6 box to allow 5 users (the kids) to login concurrently as
> > different sessions and switch to their session for as long or, more to
> > the point, as little as they need.
> >
> > 	Two possibilities that I have considered is using the Lock Screen and
> > Switch user in KDE, so that they can select their session from the gui
> > menu.  Alternately, can fixed login session be assigned to one of the
> > F1-F5 keys for each user and one other for me to access as a console if
> > required, rather than the default F7, with F1-F6 as consoles?  If so how
> > can this be done?
> >
> > 	Also, can a new session be started from within Gnome as it can from
> > within KDE?
> >
> > 	All your comments and suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Regards
> > Simon Slater
> 
> IIRC this will be the default behaviour in Fedora 7, but not easily doable 
> in 6 at the moment, someone will be along soon who knows for sure ;)
> 
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Thanks Scott.
	So if I were to go the KDE option, default gui begins at (ctr+alt)F7
access key position with the next session accessed with F8.  For
additional sessions does access continue to F12?  Can I set it to begin
at F1?

Simon




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