multiple-user behavior

[Robin Laing]

On Sun, 2006-12-24 at 12:17 -0500, Michael Klinosky wrote:
> Hello.
> I have FC 6, and use gnome. I just created a second user, and I'm
> curious about the behavior when I log in to the other user.
> 
> On the first user, I run BOINC (a distributed processing client). So, I 
> log out of that account, and into the second. I used 'top', and noticed 
> that boinc is still running.
> 
> I logged out of the second and back into the first. With 'top', I see 
> boinc is still running; however, its gui is nowhere to be found! How do 
> I get it back?
> 

BOINC is usually run as a service and the GUI is a program to just check
that it is running.  You would have to start the GUI again.  I only
rarely look at the BIONC process that is running in the background.  It
starts when I boot the computer.