From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 20 19:10:52 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08BEC16A4CE for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 19:10:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail5.speakeasy.net (mail5.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1C9C43D41 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 19:10:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 20176 invoked from network); 20 Oct 2004 19:10:51 -0000 Received: from dsl027-160-063.atl1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) encrypted SMTP for ; 20 Oct 2004 19:10:50 -0000 Received: from [10.50.41.228] (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i9KJAlbf059480; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 15:10:47 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 11:41:18 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <16710656779.20041018233408@synchron.org> <200410191520.19743.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <31210910-224A-11D9-8991-0030657EDEB2@attglobal.net> In-Reply-To: <31210910-224A-11D9-8991-0030657EDEB2@attglobal.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200410201141.19130.jhb@FreeBSD.org> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on server.baldwin.cx cc: David Scheidt Subject: Re: Powerbook Setup X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 19:10:52 -0000 On Tuesday 19 October 2004 11:43 pm, David Scheidt wrote: > On Oct 19, 2004, at 2:20 PM, John Baldwin wrote: > > desktop use.) Oh, and "switch user" from panther. My wife and I > > often share > > the same FreeBSD + KDE machine at home and when I'm not using a laptop > > we > > have to keep logging out to let the other person use the machine. > > Having > > switch user for KDE would be very, very nice. > > Not as nice as switching users, but it's possible to run more than one > instance of an X server on the machine. > > startx -- :1 > > will start X on the next available vt, and call it display :1. I'm > sure xdm can be made to run on it with not much effort, if you feel the > need for that. > > Hitting ctrl-alt-fn is not quite as nice as picking a name out of a > menu, and there are some resources wasted. For two people, on a modern > machine, it should be quite fine. I'm aware of that (we are using kdm, fwiw), but using multiple displays is a hack and not as intuitive as switch user. It also doesn't scale well. For N people you have to have N kdm instances running. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org