Re: Multiple gnome sessions

[Paul Barnfather <plb clanger9 demon co uk>]

Sean Legassick wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 07:01:32PM +0000, Sean Legassick wrote:
> >> However it seems that a given user can only have one session running at
> >> time. Is that correct?
> >
> >Yes, that's true. Hmm, interesting idea you've got there, I can't really
> >see why one would want to run more than one session though.
> 
> It is a bit obscure - but I do have a genuine reason:
> 
> I run an X server here on my NT (my job alas) machine, and connect to
> the Linux box I have sitting near to me. It also runs an X server
> itself.
> 
> The X server on the NT machine is one of these clever 'Windows will be
> your window manager' ones, and I quite like having a corner panel
> sitting around for when I want to do something on the Linux box but
> can't be bothered to go over to it. That's all I want in the session
> though.
> 
> On the Linux box itself I want a session that's got E, a full edge panel
> jam-packed with applets, gmc etc etc.
> 
> So that was why I wanted to know how to select a session. However - I
> realised that I don't want to be restricted to just one at once, so that
> I can leave my NT X server logged in if I go and use the Linux box
> itself.
> 
> Anyway, I can work around it by using two users, so don't worry :)
> 

That's odd! I have two machines here, and I can log in on both as the
same user and still get GNOME...

One is on the console, the other is an NT box connecting through
VNC to an X session.

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