From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FzIlk-0002DU-2K for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 08 Jul 2006 19:47:12 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k68JjiZT030892; Sat, 8 Jul 2006 19:45:44 GMT Received: from jfindlay.us ([67.137.24.114]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k68JeK4K019365 for ; Sat, 8 Jul 2006 19:40:21 GMT Received: by jfindlay.us (Postfix, from userid 500) id 6759E70046; Sat, 8 Jul 2006 13:40:20 -0600 (MDT) Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2006 13:40:20 -0600 From: Justin R Findlay To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing access to my laptop Message-ID: <20060708194020.GF21534@jfindlay.us> References: <49bf44f10607081109j2c5c3807h8156b62d6afbf5a6@mail.gmail.com> <1152385976.17072.4.camel@neuromancer.home.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1152385976.17072.4.camel@neuromancer.home.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Archives-Salt: 555c0f18-4390-49e1-bd6a-11d2400c64c4 X-Archives-Hash: a7a754af6ba54c8e5d8634b99ebb8439 On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 12:12:56PM -0700, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > er... click "New Login" as it's presented at the xscreensaver prompt? I believe the newlogin feature was just introduced in xscreensaver-5.00 which came out just recently. Be sure to enable the new-login USE flag in /etc/portage/package.use for x11-misc/xscreensaver. Alternatively, gnome+gdm has a "New Login" feature which is buried somewhere in the gnome menu somewhere. The problem with the "New Login" thing is that it doesn't seem to be very well thought out yet. You have to be logged in as another user to be able to access it and when user #2 is done and logs out, user #1's screen is locked no matter what what user #1's preferences are. The KDE situation is about the same, but I think the WindowsXP model is the best: have the GDM screen always running on VT7 and have it spawn new user desktops on VT8+ as needed, so when all the user desktops are locked the new user can always get to GDM and login. Or maybe you just bring up GDM when the other desktops are all locked. Justin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list