[ILUG] UserA <--> UserB Interaction

[Gavin Beatty]

On Fri, Feb 1, 2008 at 11:38 AM,  <paul at clubi.ie> wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Frank Murphy wrote:
>
>  > Is this possible?
>  >
>  > I want UserA (the normal user) to be able to access,
>  > UserB (the testing user) desktop, menu-lauch programs in X, files etc..
>  > without logging in and out.

I use `sux'. In short, it's a wrapper around `su' that lets you use
GUIs without hassle.

>  Try Xnest. Or, with more recent versions of gnome, try the
>  "gdmflexiserver".

I found Xnest to be very slow, YMMV. If nesting is preferable to you
(so you can run an actual desktop as UserB), I'd recommend Xephyr.

Launch it with:
$ Xephyr :1 -extension GLX &
Login to UserB
$ su - UserB
run whatever desktop you like on the :1 display that Xephyr's now using
$ startkde
;)

>  > libGL error: open DRM failed (Operation not permitted)  Fedora-8-Gnome
>
>  Should be a non-fatal error. However OpenGL will be much slower for
>  the second user. That's inherent to DRI really.
>
>  You can also try running multiple X-servers - again recent GNOME
>  includes a thingy for this ("add to panel.." -> User Switcher).
>
>  regards,
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