On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 03:56 -0500, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
BTW, you do _not_ need to "log out" to run applications as a different user. Although I do have to choose 1 user to login as, I often use 2-3 accounts simultaneously in X using Xauth to authorize other users so they can display applications on my desktop. I don't see any reason why you can't do this for multiple users using different languages, especially when GNOME maintains its own sessions for different users, when when displaying to the same DISPLAY.
BTW, there is also the issue of keyboards and support -- especially with non-Latin keyboards.
X.org does an excellent job of making it easy to setup multiple input devices, including multiple keyboards of different languages each. Once the keyboard device has been so configured to the local X:0.0 display, whoever logs in has ownership of the display. But, again, you can authorize other users to have access to the display and use those keyboards.
Again, does anyone have a good HOWTO on this? When I did this awhile back (under RHL9/FC1 I believe?), the locale generation was different than it appears to be on FC3/RHEL4. I.e., my notes don't seem to work on my FC3 box here.
-- Bryan
P.S. Also, IIRC, RHEL artificially limits locale support for SLA reasons and it's one of the major differences between Fedora Core and RHEL (which CentOS is). Can anyone confirm that for my ignorant, land- locked American butt (who doesn't have to support much other than English and Spanish, both very similar Latin languages)?