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nbcthreat
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 Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 3:11 am Post subject: multiple simultaneous users on X, Windows XP or OS X-style |
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| Is this possible? It would be good to let my wife log on and do work while I'm emerging stuff on my account. |
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codergeek42
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Joined: 05 Apr 2004
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Location: Anaheim, CA (USA)
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| Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 6:00 am Post subject: |
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Login to your own account, "su -" to become root, and do | Code: | | # nohup emerge <package> |
This will emerge the package and quit when it's done, and put the output into ~/nohup.out. This lets you close the terminal, logout, and the command (in this case, emerge) will still be running in the background.
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stimuli
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Location: Dartmouth, NS, Canada
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| Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 8:39 am Post subject: |
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switch to Console mode from current X session, log into console, and do
startx -- :1 vt8 &
which will start a second X session on VT 8 (original X session is on VT7) |
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HydroSan
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Joined: 04 Mar 2004
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Location: The Kremlin (aka Canada)
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stimuli's suggestion is good. If you've got Gnome (I know 2.6 has it), then you can just go Applications -> System Tools -> New Login. This'll start a new X session on another terminal (you can switch sessions by just doing an Alt+Ctrl+F*, the * being the number of the X session.)
The first X session would be F7, and the second would be F8. You can open as many as you want, but your system will start to bog down. 
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Master One
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Location: Austria
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| Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 4:23 pm Post subject: |
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Use GDM, nevertheless which DE /WM your are running! That's definitely the best and easiest way.
Then you only need to run
to spawn another Xsession starting from the GDM login on another vt, or use
| Code: | | gdmflexiserver --xnest |
to spawn another session inside a window.
It's soo cool and does not need any setup, it works like this right from the GDM default configuration. 
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