Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:32:28 -0500 From: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> To: Clint Olsen <clint.olsen@gmail.com>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Can't start more than one gnome-session as the same user? Message-ID: <476AD15C.7000701@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20071220183803.GA20396@0lsen.net> References: <20071220054842.GA1337@0lsen.net> <20071220093317.GA20354@0lsen.net> <476A3AFD.7050303@gmail.com> <20071220183803.GA20396@0lsen.net>
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-----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-----
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