[gentoo-user] Sharing access to my laptop

[gentoo-user] Sharing access to my laptop

[Grant]

My girlfriend's laptop's internal wireless card doesn't seem to
compatible with WPA and I don't want to use WEP on my Gentoo router.
This leaves me with the options of either getting her to buy a new
wireless card or sharing my laptop.  She has a user account on my
laptop and I use gdm so it's easy for her to log in, but is there
anything that can be done about the situation where I'm logged in and
away, xscreensaver has locked the screen, and she wants to log into
her account and use the system?

- Grant
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Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing access to my laptop

[Ow Mun Heng]

On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 11:09 -0700, Grant wrote:
> My girlfriend's laptop's internal wireless card doesn't seem to
> compatible with WPA and I don't want to use WEP on my Gentoo router.
> This leaves me with the options of either getting her to buy a new
> wireless card or sharing my laptop.  She has a user account on my
> laptop and I use gdm so it's easy for her to log in, but is there
> anything that can be done about the situation where I'm logged in and
> away, xscreensaver has locked the screen, and she wants to log into
> her account and use the system?


er... click "New Login" as it's presented at the xscreensaver prompt?

> - Grant
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Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing access to my laptop

[Justin R Findlay]

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
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Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing access to my laptop

[Ryan Tandy]

Grant wrote:
> My girlfriend's laptop's internal wireless card doesn't seem to
> compatible with WPA and I don't want to use WEP on my Gentoo router.
> This leaves me with the options of either getting her to buy a new
> wireless card or sharing my laptop.  She has a user account on my
> laptop and I use gdm so it's easy for her to log in, but is there
> anything that can be done about the situation where I'm logged in and
> away, xscreensaver has locked the screen, and she wants to log into
> her account and use the system?
> 
> - Grant

tarpman@epsilon ~ $ equery u xscreensaver
[ Searching for packages matching xscreensaver... ]
[ Colour Code : set unset ]
[ Legend	: Left column  (U) - USE flags from make.conf			  ]
[		   : Right column (I) - USE flags packages was installed with ]
[ Found these USE variables for x11-misc/xscreensaver-5.00 ]
  U I
<snip>
  - - new-login       : Enables users to create new logins even if the X 
screen is locked by someone else
<snip>

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Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing access to my laptop

[Ow Mun Heng]

On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 13:40 -0600, Justin R Findlay wrote:
> 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. 

$sudo emerge -pv xscreensaver
[ebuild   R   ] x11-misc/xscreensaver-4.24  USE="gnome jpeg krb4
new-login nls offensive opengl pam -insecure-savers -kerberos -xinerama"
0 kB 

$quse new-login
x11-misc/xscreensaver/xscreensaver-4.22-r4.ebuild gnome jpeg kerberos
krb4 insecure-savers new-login nls offensive opengl pam xinerama 
x11-misc/xscreensaver/xscreensaver-4.23-r1.ebuild gnome jpeg kerberos
krb4 insecure-savers new-login nls offensive opengl pam xinerama 
x11-misc/xscreensaver/xscreensaver-4.24.ebuild gnome jpeg kerberos krb4
insecure-savers new-login nls offensive opengl pam xinerama 
x11-misc/xscreensaver/xscreensaver-5.00.ebuild gnome jpeg kerberos krb4
insecure-savers new-login nls offensive opengl pam xinerama 



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Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing access to my laptop

[Grant]

> 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.

I've tried xscreensaver-4.24 and 5.00 both compiled with new-login and
I don't see any kind of a new login button on the locked screen
display.  How can I get that to work?

- Grant
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Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing access to my laptop

[Grant]

> > My girlfriend's laptop's internal wireless card doesn't seem to
> > compatible with WPA and I don't want to use WEP on my Gentoo router.
> > This leaves me with the options of either getting her to buy a new
> > wireless card or sharing my laptop.  She has a user account on my
> > laptop and I use gdm so it's easy for her to log in, but is there
> > anything that can be done about the situation where I'm logged in and
> > away, xscreensaver has locked the screen, and she wants to log into
> > her account and use the system?
>
>
> er... click "New Login" as it's presented at the xscreensaver prompt?

So you see that button on the locked screen after compiling with
new-login without any further configuration?  I've compiled 4.24 and
5.00 with new-login and I don't see anything like that on the locked
screen.

- Grant
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