[wplug] The Ultimate Desktop II

[Logan]

> 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.
> I don't really understand where that behavior would fit into 
> the Xserver model, so please forgive the vagueness of the question.
I'm no expert either, so take my words with a grain of salt.
> would be *called* or what program would handle it (though I presume it
> would be X, or something like GDM, but I don't know what to look for).

To my knowledge, [GKX]DM would have to handle this, as normally each user 
starts their own X-session. I haven't seen support for this under *nix, save 
for OSX, which hardly counts.