Multiple program instances or multiple log ins?

[lesmikesell at gmail.com (Les Mikesell)]

On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 19:08, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> > > 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.

You can use the same approach you'd use for an account on a
different machine:
 ssh -Y user@locahost programname
although you lose a bit of machine efficiency as a tradeoff
for not having to deal with special cases. 

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