
Switch Users Fast #16
Chapter 3, Login Managers
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GNOME. You can set up as many of these login screens as you want, and
each one will start up a separate user session. You can even customize the
graphical look and feel of each login screen.
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Switch Users Fast Hack #16
Get two or more people logged in to their favorite graphical desktop at the
same time on the same machine.
It’s a personal computer. No, it’s a family computer. No, it’s two...two...
two computers in one! Picture this. You’re working at home on an impor-
tant business document when your daughter tells you she needs to use the
computer for a while to do research for a school project. Do you have to
close all your applications and log out for her to do her work? Nope. The
following hack shows you a few ways to let your daughter log in and work
with her own desktop without you having to close your applications and log
out first.
You can get two or more users logged in and running separate graphical
desktops on the same machine in a number of ways. This hack explores the
built-in method.
First, a Lesson on Virtual Terminals
You might recall that people used to attach several text-based terminals to
minicomputers and mainframes so that many users could access the com-
puter at once. Each person could log in to the computer and work on his
separate text console, because he had his own text-based terminal con-
nected to the main computer. ...