Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 11:41:18 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org Cc: David Scheidt <dmschei@attglobal.net> Subject: Re: Powerbook Setup Message-ID: <200410201141.19130.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <31210910-224A-11D9-8991-0030657EDEB2@attglobal.net> References: <16710656779.20041018233408@synchron.org> <200410191520.19743.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <31210910-224A-11D9-8991-0030657EDEB2@attglobal.net>
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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 <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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