yeah, this feature request sounds a little dodgy to me too... you should just ask your kids to disable screen locking or just flip to other screen and do your stuff there. On 5/25/05, Fulko.Hew@xxxxxxxxx <Fulko.Hew@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > William John Murray <w.murray@xxxxxxxx> on 05/25/05 11:27 AM wrote: > > > Just a thought for improving Fedora. We now have a 'new login' > > menu item in gnome at least, which creates a new session nested inside > > the old. Isn't this MOST useful when someone has left the screen locked? > > > I completely dissagree with this feature request! > > If I have locked my screen, I did it for a reason. > And that reason was, I didn't want _anyone_ else to use my system. > There should be no way for another user to overide it. > Only the system administrator should be allowed to do something, > and that probably would entail killing my processes. > > > I come along, find one of my kids has locked the screen, and I can > > either 'ctrl-atl-tab' or go and look for him. Bein able to just nest > > a new session would be great. > > Your problem appears to be that you want to disable the > screen locking mechanism so your kids can't lock _you_ out. > > If you need another 'session' you could always flip to another screen, > login, do your stuff (even startx), log out, and leave the kids' > screen still locked and untouched. > > > > > -- > fedora-test-list mailing list > fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list >