Thanks David; On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 19:57 -0400, David F. Skoll wrote: > Actually, I just thought of a way that *might* work. > > You can create two users: user1 and user2. Give them the *same* uid > (the same decimal number that identifies users in /etc/passwd) and the > same group id, but different home directories. > > Because you have different home directories, your users can have different > desktops. Also, symlinking the evolution directories should work (or > hardlinking them if that fails) because all the permissions will be OK. I understand you proposal and appreciate it. I plan to give it a try, but for now I already have three Linux learning curves to climb. So I am going to put it off for a couple of weeks. > > The only other possible solution I can see is to somehow run two > > xwindows servers for 1 user. I don't know how that can be done. > > That's easy; I do it all the time. Just have gdm or xdm start up > two servers in different virtual consoles. On Debian, I just make > sure these two lines are in /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf: > > [servers] > 0=Standard > 1=Standard I tried it. It did nothing for my problem, except getting me to explore gdm.conf a bit for the first time. Thanks for your suggestions. Regards Bill