Thanks Mike; I see what you are talking about. I'll try it this evening and let you know. On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 12:49 -0400, Mike Denhoff wrote: > I wonder if this might work. Set up evolution only for user1. When > you are logged on as user2, start an xterm and su to user1 and from > that start evolution as user1. This will take some xauth magic to get > evolution running as user1 to display in X running as user2. > > I don't understand xauth properly, but I just tried this. I know it's > not really the proper way, but ... > > As user1, su to root, > # cp /home/user1/.Xauthority /home/user2/.Xauthority > # chown user2.users /home/user2/.Xauthority > ( make sure the permissions of .Xauthority are correct. ) > logout, login as user2 and start up X using > $ startx > open an xterm and do > $ su - user1 > password > $ export DISPLAY=:0.0 > $ evolution & > > I just use startx - I'm a simple minded Slackware user. > I don't know what gdmflexiserver will do, but if it doesn't overwrite > .Xauthority then the above might work. > > Mike > mike DOT denhoff AT nrc DOT ca It seems to me that two roles | two environments | two users should be relatively easy and a fairly common request ... but its not. Regards Bill