Can I run a second KDE seession, as different user?

[Basil Fowler]

There is a way - but not quite as you described.

You can have multiple users on the same console. Each user can then start an 
individual KDE session.   

The system is this:

Hit Ctrl-Alt-F2 to get a text console.

log in the other user

Enter the command 
startx -- :1 

this will start a second kde session 

to swap between sessions hit crtl-alt-f7 to get back to the first, and 
ctrl-alt-f8 to get back to the second.

If this arrangement is satisfactory, you can alias startx to 'startx -- :1' in 
the user's .bashrc file.

Sorry about the command line, but if you want to something exotic, command 
line it has to be.  Try that trick with window$!!

Basil  




On Monday 10 Mar 2003 21:27, Steve King wrote:
> Hello
> 
> Is there a way to run KDE as a different user, overlayed on top of an 
existing
> KDE session? In particular, rather than logging out of my account and then
> into root, it would be handy to run KDE as root in a window within my own 
KDE
> session. Similarly, if one of my family want to quickly do something (check
> their email or whatever), they can do it without me having to stop my 
session
> first. I've tried the obvious "su - ... kde3" and that doesn't work.
> 
> Steve
> 
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