Thanks Stephen; I am going to try both of your suggestions. If nothing else it will be a learning opportunity. But first perhaps there is another solution you allude to at the top of your response. On Sat, 2005-08-06 at 13:34 -0400, Stephen Gregory wrote: > On Sat, 06 Aug 2005 11:16:51 -0400 > William Case <billlinux [ at ] rogers [ dot ] com> wrote: > > > I use them for two separate purposes but I would like > > my mail, calendar, tasks and contacts to be the same in both. > > IMHO you best option is to evaulate why you need the second user and > find another solution. The main problem, which you have just found, is > shareing some data while attempting to keep other data seperate. > Perhaps there is another way to accomplish my main intent. I am semi-retired spending a lot of pleasurable time leaning Linux. But I also from time-to-time have some small paying contracts for work that is not IT related. I am sure there are a lot of users who have two or more roles in life. As a linux learner (user1) I have a screen full of icons that come and go. Panels that are full. Games and TV tuner etc. all over my screens. And, I like it that way. When I work on a project, on the other hand (user2), I like to work clean with as little clutter as possible, with only the files and research that I am using for that specific project visible. When the project is finished I put them away. I don't think I am unique. Only my email, to-do lists, calendar, contacts and notes are things I want available in both places. If you can suggest how one could achieve the above without being two users I would appreciate it. > One way would be to setup a set of services to hold the data. You > could use IMAP for mail, LDAP for contacts, and possibly WebDAV for the > calendar and tasks. > > A second way would be to create a third user and launch evolution as > that user. Purhaps with X running on another console, the Xnest X > server, or a script that copies Xauthority info before starting > evolution. Something like (this is not tested): > > xauth extract - $DISPLAY | sudo -i -u <evouser> xauth merge - > sudo -i -u <evouser> evolution > > Having one console dedicated to each user, or useing the Xnest X server > is probably best. With seperate consoles you could switch between them > with CTRL-ATL-Fn. With Xnest you would enable XDMCP in gdm and run > (untested): > > $ Xnest -query localhost Regards Bill