On Tue, 23.09.08 12:55, Colin Walters (walters@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > As far as I know we again allow multiple simultaneous X logins by the > > same user. > > If we do, it's broken. Maybe we should come to some official agreement if we do want to allow simultaneous X logins of the same user or not. In the last year or two it was always a constant forth and back whether we would want to support this or not. First people told me we should allow this, then they told me we already gave up on it, then people told me we would like to support it, now you again say we don't want it. So, what's it now? Shall we support multiple simultaneous logins by the same user on X or shall we not? I am pretty sure in GNOME allowing this is a lost cause or would mean a lot of work, but maybe some of the oh-I-have-a-gray-beard-i-like-fvwm fraction really insists on having this feature. What's the current default for gdm? > > dbus service. Besides PA only the new V4L daemon (possibly) comes to > > my mind that fall into this category. Adding such a bus for just two > > users probably doesn't make too much sense. Especially since according > > to Scott Upstart will eventually support starting per-user "singleton" > > daemons easily. > > Adding such a bus makes no sense because the desktop and apps will > break/disallow concurrent usage. About the only thing you can do in > such a second session is run a terminal, which you could do equally > well with just a new tab in your current session. Sure, I see the problem. Always did. But I wonder if the current plan is to fix all those apps, or that we already gave up on it. Anyway, for now I support multiple logins, since that is the superset of the single-login case. But nonetheless I'd be interested to know what actually is on. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
