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List:       kde-user
Subject:    Re: Simultaneous sessions?
From:       Joel Reicher <joel () panacea ! null ! org>
Date:       1999-08-03 13:27:30
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> I'm sure that this is more of an X question than KDE, but this is the only
> related list that I subscribe to, so please bear with me.

It probably isn't a KDE question at all. :)

> I'm training my wife with KDE (I'm keeping her away from MS-Windows), and

Yay!

> we're sharing a machine with individual accounts.  I'd like to be able to
> turn the machine over to her for short periods and have her get into her own
> KDE session without having to shut down my own session.  In other words, I'd
> like to have multiple KDE sessions running simultaneously on the same
> machine (just like the multiple console capability).  I'd prefer to not have
> multiple CPUs.

This has nothing to do with multiple CPUs, and more to do with the multiple
console than you realise. Multiple consoles is probably exactly what you
have to tackle. I can't be sure exactly what kind of console driver you are
using, but I expect when you run X it talks to your console driver and
runs inside one of the consoles - what you need to do is make sure your
console driver is configured so that it can devote a second console to X.

Once you've done that you can run X with startx, or with xdm, or with kdm,
or with a pentagram, three black roosters and a crumpet...

Cheers,

	- Joel Reicher
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