On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 12:35 -0400, 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. Uhm, what prevents an user with physical access from just removing power and thereby killing your 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. And exactly how discoverable is this? To me the feature request makes a lot of sense. However, fast user-switching, as this is a variant of, does have some issues we need to work out (such as permissions on removable storage and other devices - there's a few others too). David