Locked screen

[Rodd Clarkson]

On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 12:35 -0400, Fulko.Hew at sita.aero wrote:
> 
> William John Murray <w.murray at rl.ac.uk> on 05/25/05 11:27 AM wrote:
> 
> > Just a thought for improving Fedora. We now have a 'new login'
> > menu item in gnome at least, which creates a new session nested inside
> > the old. Isn't this MOST useful when someone has left the screen locked?

AFAIK this isn't precisely correct.  New Login doesn't create a nested x
session, it creates a new x session on another virtual terminal (eg vt8)

> I completely dissagree with this feature request!
> 
> If I have locked my screen, I did it for a reason.
> And that reason was, I didn't want _anyone_ else to use my system.
> There should be no way for another user to overide it.
> Only the system administrator should be allowed to do something,
> and that probably would entail killing my processes.

You're using a multi-user operating system.  Expecting that others
shouldn't be able to access the system at the same time as you is a
little odd isn't it?

Expecting that others can't access your session is quite reasonable, but
the way that New Login works means that you're session remains untouched
with the user logging into a new (and unique) session of their own.

> > I come along, find one of my kids has locked the screen, and I can
> > either 'ctrl-atl-tab' or go and look for him. Bein able to just nest
> > a new session would be great.
> 
> Your problem appears to be that you want to disable the
> screen locking mechanism so your kids can't lock _you_ out.
> 
> If you need another 'session' you could always flip to another screen,
> login, do your stuff (even startx), log out, and leave the kids'
> screen still locked and untouched.

Which is really what New Login actually does, just from within X.

Maybe the confusion in all this is that someone used the term 'nested'
when the new session isn't really nested at all.



R.
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