On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 10:01:30AM +0200 or thereabouts, Jos Vos wrote: > On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 08:52:54AM +0100, Tim Waugh wrote: > > > No, per user. More than one GNOME session on the same system works > > fine as long as they are different users. > > Note that it is highly inconvenient that only one GNOME session per > user is possible. Is this a structural design issue of GNOME? I have already noted this myself :) It was a pain at GUADEC, the Gnome conference, too: the hacking room ended up with a series of "guadec1", "guadec2", "guadec3" accounts, one per terminal, rather than a nice simple "guadec" and a dozen terminals (all attached to the same box). Sun have patches to make it work (or work better; not sure which), but they're not upstream. There was a long thread on the desktop-devel mailing list about this very recently; and I gather Gnome bug 94049 is muddled up with it too, along with its duplicates. http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2004-June/thread.html#00424 http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2004-June/thread.html#00441 (the thread, which ended up in two places in the archive. Silly subject line, yes) http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94049 I have just realised that Mark, who mentioned this bug, is probably on this list. I should have left it to him to explain :) But the answer is apparently to "fix gnome-settings-daemon". Telsa
