Multiple program instances or multiple log ins?

[rgm at htt-consult.com (Robert Moskowitz)]

At 12:26 AM 12/28/2005, Les Mikesell wrote:
>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.

oh, sneaky.  I WILL have to try that....