multiple local X logins by same user
Matthew Woehlke
mw_triad at users.sourceforge.net
Wed Sep 24 17:59:22 UTC 2008
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Bill Crawford wrote:
> I put "firefox -Pfoo %u" in a panel icon, with different foo in different
> places, and can start three different firefox instances (I have three screens,
> and I often use them for different purposes e.g. if I need to log into our web
> app under an admin and non-admin user ID at the same time ... this is extremely
> useful for testing purposes).
>
> It's kludgy, but it works. Perhaps even a script that created a profile based on
> the display name? "firefox -Pprofile-%DISPLAY" might cut it, if anyone fancies
> trying it.
Ah, so it's a limitation of the profile support, then? I guess that
makes sense, though I still consider it a bug :-). Thanks for the tip,
though!
--
Matthew
I was recently amused by issuing 'rm -rf $KDEDIR'... from Konsole, while
in a KDE session. And nothing bad happened whatsoever. Try THAT on
Windows :-D.
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