Multiple program instances or multiple log ins?

[craigwhite at azapple.com (Craig White)]

On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 20:08 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> At 06:11 PM 12/27/2005, Les Mikesell wrote:
> >On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 16:03, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> > > >
> > > >In UNIX, you want to _avoid_ doing that.  Why?  Because in
> > > >the UNIX world -- _everyone_ knows that user settings go in
> > > >the user's home directory.
> > >
> > > Oh, in a Un*x world I would not move them out of the user's home
> > > directory.  Just organize better by identity within home.
> >
> >But why fight the native multiuser design with a workaround that
> >you had to use elsewhere?  Just give every identity its own home.
> 
> This is another thing I am looking at.  But I would have to be logged 
> into all of them pretty much at once.
> 
> Un*x has always supported this.  But gnome seems to be weak on this.
> 
> I would have to learn again how to do a make!
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an ugly concept...

su - user_identity1 - c '/usr/bin/evolution &'
su - user_identity2 - c '/usr/bin/evolution &'
etc.

Craig