On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 03:28:42PM -0400, William Case wrote:
> It would be ideal if KDE or Gnome (I prefer Gnome) had a desktop
> switching facility with perhaps rudimentary password protection. Then
> one could switch between one setup and another.
You can configure gdm (Gnome's login manager) to provide multiple login
sessions. It's been a while since I've done this, but I think it's as
simple as:
1) edit /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf and add
1=Standard
to the [servers] section, below the 0=Standard line
2) log out of X
3) log in via a text console and restart gdm
This should give you a second GDM login screen accessible on the 8th
virtual console (using Ctrl-Alt-F8). You can switch between virtual
consoles at any time (use Ctrl-Alt-F7 to go back to the first one).
Something similar is also possible with XDM and KDM as well.
Cheers,
Dave