March 2005
Beginner to intermediate
342 pages
15h 55m
English
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Chapter 3, Login Managers
#17 Double Your KDM (KDE) Login Screens
HACK
The Built-In KDE and GNOME Way
Some Linux distributions with the latest versions of GNOME or KDE
include a menu option to log in as another user on a separate virtual termi-
nal. For example, as of this writing, one menu sequence (on Gentoo Linux)
for GNOME is Applications
➝ System Tools ➝ New Login. This brings up a
second GNOME-based graphical login screen (GDM), from which a second
user can log in and start working with her account. This works only if you
started GNOME from GDM. Here’s why: after you start a GNOME ses-
sion, part of GDM is still running in the background waiting for you to exit
GNOME. The menu selection depends on this program to be running in the
background, so if you didn’t start GNOME with GDM, it won’t be running
and waiting to start another session.
Fedora Core 2 currently does not offer the option of starting
a new login, even though it runs GDM by default. You can
still get multiple simultaneous logins with graphical desk-
tops using the other techniques described in this hack.
The latest versions of KDE have a similar option. The menu sequence on my
Gentoo system is K Menu
➝ System ➝ New Login. (Beware: I take the risk
of running the latest unstable versions of software on my system, so you
might not have this option.) Again, this will work only if you logged in to
KDE from the KDE graphical login
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