[Wylug-discuss] Switching Users

[Phil Driscoll]

On Friday 02 April 2004 23:29, Daniel Eliades wrote:
> I am currently talking my family into switching from Windows XP to SUSE
> 9.0. I have a few questions which I need answered before I do the switch.
> Is it possible with linux to switch users?  What I mean, is that I want one
> person logged on to the internet using AOL Instant Messenger and when they
> switch users or log out I want them to still be logged in but for another
> user to be logged in as well.  Please let me know if this is possible or if
> you need more information.  Thanks a lot in advance-

No problem. On the K Menu (Start Menu) in KDE in SuSE 9 there is an option
'Start New Session' which fires up another X session so another user can log
in. You can then switch between sessions using the <ctrl><alt>f7 and f8 keys.

Cheers
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Phil Driscoll