KDE Switch User and FC4

Clamp · #1 2nd July 2005, 02:20 PM

Hi there, I'm tring to enable the switch user feature of KDE, I already tried this but no sucess, any succefull attempts out there?
I already defined kdm as my login manager
ps: I git the switch user button, but no start new session one

Clamp · #2 9th July 2005, 03:28 AM

>_< noone? come on

tejas · #3 9th July 2005, 02:03 PM

I don't know why this is disabled in FC.

Anyway, simple work around:

Right click on screen, select lock desktop.

Move mouse, a small window shows up. Select change user

- Tejas Dinkar

rshimpi · #4 19th July 2005, 04:23 PM

This did not work for me!! I do not get an option to create a new user

Furball · #5 19th July 2005, 04:34 PM

Perhaps this will help you:

##### From http://www.is.kde.org/documentation/...html#id2552886

9.11.

How can I allow more than one user to be logged in a at a time? Can KDE do “fast user switching”?

To enable more than one user to log in at one time on the same computer (sometimes referred to as “fast user switching”) you need to tell the program that logs you in that it can use more than one session (or, in X Window System® terms, “display”) at a time.

In KDE, this program is called kdm which stands for “KDE Display Manager”. If you are not using kdm as your login screen then you will need to consult the documentation for that software on how to accomplish multiple sessions.

If you are using kdm, then locate the file called XServers that is in a kdm folder. This is most likely in `kde-config --prefix`/share/config/kdm/XServers, though some vendors put it in the /etc directory. Open this file in a text editor (you will most likely need to be root to do this) and find the entry that looks like this:

:0 local@tty1 /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp -br vt7

Beneath that line add one or more entries like this:

:1 local@tty2 reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp -br :1 vt8
:2 local@tty3 reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp -br :2 vt9
:3 local@tty4 reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp -br :3 vt10

Each of entry enables one additional session to be started. After saving this file, you will have to restart the X Window System® server. The easiest way to do this is log out of KDE and from the login (kdm) screen select Restart X Server from the Options menu. After logging into KDE again, the log out and screensaver password dialogs should have a Start New Session entry.

Btw, in fedora the file is /usr/share/config/kdm/Xservers
I hope it works for you, I've never tried it out.

Clamp · #6 19th July 2005, 06:18 PM

I'm going to try that whem I arrive @home (Debiam at work), but I can't understand why fedora is not pre-configured with that, For me it is a common thing, because I'm sure sharing the same pc for mor them one people at home is not unusual.

Clamp · #7 20th July 2005, 04:20 PM

Damn.. no sucess, no matter what I do I can't get the new session option

Furball · #8 20th July 2005, 04:50 PM

According to some mailing lists this feature (the button or the complete functionality) has been taken out of fedora. I don't know the reasons for this.
Also, I've found no simple workaround for this problem. Seems, we have to live without user switching.

vtomov · #9 20th July 2005, 06:52 PM

Hi,

I just got this to work in FC4. I got the info from: http://georgi.unixsol.org/diary/addc...php/2005-03-29

It is in Bulgarian, but the short of it is to edit /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc and add the following lines to the [General] section:

StaticServers=:0
ReserveServers=:1,:2,:3
ServerVTs=-7
ConsoleTTYs=tty1,tty2,tty3,tty4,tty5,tty6

After restarting KDE, I can now right-click on the desktop and select Switch user --> log in as different user. Once I have logged in as someone else, I can switch between users.

I did not have to edit the Xservers file.

I hope this helps.

Furball · #10 20th July 2005, 07:13 PM

That's strange because this is the same information as in the edited /usr/share/config/kdm/Xservers.
And /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc included that file.
But if it works, that's great (cannot try it out here)

Someone could write a mini Howto, as the bulgarian page would never be found in google (except you speak bulgarian

)

Clamp · #11 21st July 2005, 12:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vtomov

Hi,

I just got this to work in FC4. I got the info from: http://georgi.unixsol.org/diary/addc...php/2005-03-29

It is in Bulgarian, but the short of it is to edit /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc and add the following lines to the [General] section:

StaticServers=:0
ReserveServers=:1,:2,:3
ServerVTs=-7
ConsoleTTYs=tty1,tty2,tty3,tty4,tty5,tty6

After restarting KDE, I can now right-click on the desktop and select Switch user --> log in as different user. Once I have logged in as someone else, I can switch between users.

I did not have to edit the Xservers file.

I hope this helps.

Finally it works, damn now I can leave azureus on 24/7 ^^