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List:       novalug
Subject:    Re: [novalug] Dialing, mail and other apps
From:       "Don E. Groves, Jr." <jetnick () erols ! com>
Date:       1999-09-29 2:00:58
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On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Tim Bogart wrote:

> All,
> 
> 	I was finally able to breathe some life into my new Linux box.  Now I
> need to learn how to use it correctly.  I wish to continue to boot to run level
> 3 in order to allow multiple logons.  I wish to have a logon for myself and
> my wife.  I wish that we both be able to use things like the modem, the artpad
> and staroffice.  I would like to set up multiple mail accounts to check
> different mailboxes.  I do not wish to logon as root any longer, as I know this
> is not a good practice, and wish to break it, now.
> 
> 	I already know how to, and have created the accounts for my wife and I.
>  Passwords are set.  What I need to know is...  When I am installing my phone
> dialer, staroffice, art pad, etc. to allow global utilization of these things,
> and not just use by the root account.  I suspect the answer to my dilema is
> not as simple as I portray it.  But that's okay.  I don't mind a little work. 
> Even alot of it.  I realize that what I am asking is probably going to cause me
> do dis/uninstall alot of software and reconfigure alot of components, undoing
> most of the work I've already done, but that's okay.   It's all part of the
> learning process.  And at the end, I'll know alot more, and be better for it. 
> If nothing else, this is the first email I've ever sent on a Linux box. 
> YEAH!!!  Any and all suggestions/help will be most appreciated.  For those of
> you who may be keeping tabs on my progress, yes, this is the new box with dual
> 400MHZ P2's.  I DID finally get a case for it.
> 
> 	Some other important stats:
> RH 6.0
> Kernel 2.2.5
> KDE Desktop
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Tim B.

If you want you could switch to RunLevel 5 after first editing gdm's
configuration file: /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf

To the server section add { adjust to the following

[servers]
0=/usr/bin/X11/X
1=/usr/bin/X11/X

This will give you TWO(2) graghic login screens One at Ctl-Alt-F7 and
another at Ctl-Alt-F8.

Now you and your "better half" can both have an X session going at the
same time.

The other way to have TWO X sesion going is from the prompt do:
  [Tim@home Tim]$ startx -- :0

And "your better half" {ybh} to always use:
  [ybh@home ybh]$ startx -- :1

Who's window is Ctl-Alt-F7 depends on who started X first.
 The other would be at Ctl-Alt-F8.

Either way you are both able to have an X session running at the same
time.

---
 ------------------
 Don E. Groves, Jr.

 # /usr/game/fortune
I tell them to turn to the study of mathematics, for it is only there that
they might escape the lusts of the flesh.
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