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

[Basil Fowler]

My system has a group 'audio' in which all users + root are members.

Extract from /etc/group 
...
audio:x:17:root,bjfowler,b_scholtz,guest
...

The /dev/dsp* files have the following ownerships and permissions:

crw-rw-rw-    1 root     audio     14,   3 Mar 23  2002 /dev/dsp0 

Perhaps these settings will do the trick.

Basil Fowler 

on SuSE 8.0


On Tuesday 11 Mar 2003 07:54, Johnny Ernst Nielsen wrote:
> Good day Steve,
> 
> Mandag den 10. marts 2003 23:46 kvad Steve King:
> > On Monday 10 March 2003 10:34 pm, Basil Fowler wrote:
> > > With my method, all displays have use of the sound card.
> >
> > I tried your way first. I get some errors. I think they may be
> > related to the startx trying to run KDE2 rather than KDE3. (Most of
> > my KDE2 installation is wiped, with only kdelibs remaining to
> > satisfy some dependencies for some stuff I use.) The final straw
> > seems to be "cannot contact kdeinit" or something like that. I will
> > collect some more precise information later this week.
> >
> > Given the choice between text entry and GUI, I prefer GUI. But then
> > I only want to know how to do this for occasional use, so which
> > ever method I can get to work best will do.
> 
> For an entire extra KDE session, what Basil descibes is available 
> through the GUI in KDE 3.0.4/3.0.5.
> In the K button is an item "Start New Session".
> 
> This keeps my "Johnny" session on Ctl+Alt+F7 and creates a new KDE GUI 
> login on Ctl+Alt+F8.
> 
> You stop a second session (or a third one) by logging out and 
> selecting to "Log on as a different user". That brings you back to 
> the previously started session.
> 
> As for the sound being shared...
> Some systems give the first user that logs in exclusive ownership of 
> the sound device, which prevents other users from using the device.
> 
> You can check if this is so on your system like this:
> Log in (your first login) like "Steve".
> Open konsole and type 'ls /dev/dsp*'
> 
> You may get a list showing that "Steve" owns the dsp devices.
> Now "Start a new session" as some other ordinary user (not root) on 
> top of you "Steve" session.
> Open konsole and list the dsp devices again.
> Here you may see that "Steve" still owns the dsp devices, which 
> prevents your newly logged in user from using them.
> 
> If you start a new session as root, you will have sound in both your 
> root session and "Steve" session because root has permission to use 
> devices that are otherwise owned exclusively by ordinary users.
> 
> I do not know how to resolve this permission system, but I am sure it 
> can be resolved if you need it.
> 
> Best regards :o)
> 
> Johnny :o)
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