[wplug] The Ultimate Desktop II

[Alexandros Papadopoulos]

On Saturday 19 March 2005 01:33, Brandon Kuczenski wrote:
> I was wondering if there are any provisions on Debian to implement a
> Windows XP-style "switch user" option, where multiple users are
> logged in concurrently (each with his/her own X session) but only one
> user is active at any time. 

startx -- :1
startx -- :2
startx -- :3
etc... for multiple X sessions running on different virtual terminals. 
You can even make this work with remote terminals, since the X server 
has been designed with networking environments in mind.

This is distribution independent.

Check out http://katspace.net/computers/linux_tips.html#toc_0_4 for 
slightly more details.

-A