From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 20 20:32:54 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8905C16A420 for ; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 20:32:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: from mta2.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (mta2.srv.hcvlny.cv.net [167.206.4.197]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B68B13C46E for ; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 20:32:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: from flosoft.no-ip.biz (ool-435559b8.dyn.optonline.net [67.85.89.184]) by mta2.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 (built Feb 28 2007)) with ESMTP id <0JTD007KJ7Q5A5D1@mta2.srv.hcvlny.cv.net> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:32:30 -0500 (EST) Received: from flosoft.no-ip.biz (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by flosoft.no-ip.biz (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id lBKKWSPe057075; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:32:28 -0500 Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:32:28 -0500 From: "Aryeh M. Friedman" In-reply-to: <20071220183803.GA20396@0lsen.net> To: Clint Olsen , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Message-id: <476AD15C.7000701@gmail.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.5 References: <20071220054842.GA1337@0lsen.net> <20071220093317.GA20354@0lsen.net> <476A3AFD.7050303@gmail.com> <20071220183803.GA20396@0lsen.net> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071217) Cc: Subject: Re: Can't start more than one gnome-session as the same user? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 20:32:54 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Clint Olsen wrote: > On Dec 20, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: >> Side question: Can this solution be used to access multiple >> accounts on the same machine? > > I'm not quite sure what you mean here. Do you mean multiple gnome > sessions all as different user ids? That's not a problem. It was > just that I was trying to run gnome both under vncserver and > natively on the console. > I mean multiple sessions all under the same user *BUT* all tied to the same xterm. Namely I often login into my main account then su to more specialized accounts and do a xhost +/setenv DISPLAY :0 in the respective .cshrc's. Thus I can start X apps from the command line as the su'ed user but I want to make it so I can also have a panel (xfce4 not gnome but I suspect it is the same issue since both use GTK) for them. - -- Aryeh M. Friedman FloSoft Systems http://www.flosoft-systems.com Developer, not business, friendly -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHatFczIOMjAek4JIRAiydAJ9iRKSiH4cYBLS9/DR2s2t6kEhNBwCfcXAU PEQNpdnjECRFQErPR/NW1/s= =1HEB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----