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

[Tako Schotanus]

That might be true and maybe your option is good enough for Steve, but I 
already have problems explaining to some users that depending on 
availablility they have to sometimes use CTLR+ALT+F8 and sometimes 
CTRL+ALT+F7. Having them go to a text-only login would only freak them 
out and they'd probably force me to switch back to Windows :-)

I would love to have a feature that would take just one fixed shortcut 
combination that would take any user at any time to a fresh login screen 
where they could log in (or reconnect to an already logged in session). 
I might not always agree with the things Microsoft does, but the Fast 
User Switching has in a very short time become indispensable for me.

So all in all I just accept that the sound card is not available 
everywhere. (although I would be VERY happy if somebody could explain 
how to fix it that the "active" session has control over de soundcard!!)

Cheers,
 -Tako

Basil Fowler wrote:

>With my method, all displays have use of the sound card.
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>Regards
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>Basil
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>On Monday 10 Mar 2003 22:30, Steve King wrote:
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>>On Monday 10 March 2003 9:49 pm, Tako Schotanus wrote:
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>>>To give others access to my computer without logging out I have added a
>>>secondary login screen by adding the following line to the
>>>/etc/kde/kdm/Xservers file (if you use KDM, I think XDM and GDM use
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>><snip>
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>>>All is not perfect because only one "screen" has access to the sound
>>>card for example, but it is the closest I've been able to get to the
>>>Windows Fast User Switching.
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>>I didn't dare use the W-word, but that is where I had seen this kind of 
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>thing 
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>>before... Anyway I have tried your suggestion. It works fine except, as you 
>>warned, only one "screen" has the sound card. Problem is, that is always the 
>>root, not a real user. This is based on a very brief experiment, but seems 
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>to 
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>>not be influenced by which users I tried it with nor in what order. Perhaps 
>>it is some way random, I am not sure. Do you know how to be certain that the 
>>sound card at least works for the first "screen" to login? That would be 
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>fine 
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>>for practically all occasions (because there will usually only be the one 
>>user). 
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>>Thanks
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>>Steve
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