Two different users on the same machine

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 09:08 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 22:58 +0100, Paul Smith wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 1:36 AM, Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
> > wrote:
> > >> I am running XFCE on F9, and I would like to know how to allow two
> > >> different users to login on my machine at the same time. On F8, I
> > >> remember a menu entry
> > >>
> > >> System --> New Login
> > >>
> > >> but I cannot find it on F9.
> > >>
> > >> Any ideas?
> > >>
> > >> Thanks in advance,
> > >>
> > > I'm not sure I understand the problem... You have a user coming in
> > (over
> > > network?) and they can't login? Or what?
> > >
> > > If you just wan't a session as another user, you use
> > > "xterm -e su - USER2" &
> On my F8 system under Gnome the option is: Applications->System Tools->
> New Login. But it is not clear why you want to use this and for what
> purpose. It looks like it allows you to login as a new user without
> stopping the status of the old login.
> 
> The suggestions you received will allow another user login but so will
> logging off and logging in again. So is the purpose you are trying to
> achieve?

He already said it in the original post: to allow two users to use the
machine at the same time. I interpret "at the same time" to mean "let
someone log in to his own X session on the same physical screen without
me having to log out of my session, or vice versa". It's called Fast
User Switching. I used to use this all the time when the rest of my
family didn't have computers of their own. I still use it on occasion to
try something on Gnome without having to log out of KDE.

poc