Privacy

[ghaverla at freenet.edmonton.ab.ca]

On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Allen Ziegenfus wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 21:34:34 -0800
> Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Log out when you're not using the machine. Give each member of your
> > family and their friends their own account.
> 
> How do people  actually do this in practice? I long for fast user
> switching ala XP or OS X where you can leave your apps running while
> someone else logs on. The only way I've heard of to do it with Linux is
> to run more than one X server process.

Running a second X-server shouldn't be a problem.  If it isn't
active, it won't be taking cycles.  You do need to be running a
lockscreen on the X-server that you are switching from.  But
Control-Alt-F8 is a pretty fast way to get to that second
X-server.

Gord