I asked one of my team mates to evaluate centos 5.2 as a more stable distro for our business use than Fedora which we have used for years.
His main objection so far has been the lack of a neat feature of recent Fedoras (at least since 7) that allows a user to login as himself if the screen is locked by another user (a switch user feature).
Is that feature available or is it planned?
Thanks.
-Tom
Tom Browder Niceville, Florida USA
Tom Browder wrote:
I asked one of my team mates to evaluate centos 5.2 as a more stable distro for our business use than Fedora which we have used for years.
His main objection so far has been the lack of a neat feature of recent Fedoras (at least since 7) that allows a user to login as himself if the screen is locked by another user (a switch user feature).
Is that feature available or is it planned?
One way to do this is to do Ctrl-Alt-F1 (or F2, F3, etc) to bring up one of the plain text terminals, and you can just log in there.
If you just need a text terminal then this is all you need.
If you need a graphical terminal, then in the text terminal you need to type:
startx -- :1
and this will bring up your desktop (no need to log in, as you have done already).
You can switch between this and the locked terminal by using Ctrl-Alt-F7 and Ctrl-Alt-F8 (probably).
When you have finished with your session, you "log out" as usual, and you then drop back out to your text terminal (still logged in). You logout from that, and then Ctrl-Alt-F7 will bring back the locked terminal.
Hywel.
On 7/30/08, Hywel Richards hywelbr@googlemail.com wrote:
Tom Browder wrote:
I asked one of my team mates to evaluate centos 5.2 as a more stable distro for our business use than Fedora which we have used for years.
His main objection so far has been the lack of a neat feature of recent Fedoras (at least since 7) that allows a user to login as himself if the screen is locked by another user (a switch user feature).
Is that feature available or is it planned?
...
One way to do this is to do Ctrl-Alt-F1 (or F2, F3, etc) to bring up one of the plain text terminals, and you can just log in there.
If you just need a text terminal then this is all you need.
If you need a graphical terminal, then in the text terminal you need to type:
startx -- :1
and this will bring up your desktop (no need to log in, as you have done already).
You can switch between this and the locked terminal by using Ctrl-Alt-F7 and Ctrl-Alt-F8 (probably).
When you have finished with your session, you "log out" as usual, and you then drop back out to your text terminal (still logged in). You logout from that, and then Ctrl-Alt-F7 will bring back the locked terminal.
Thanks, Hywel.
-Tom
Tom Browder Niceville, Florida USA
Tom Browder ha scritto:
I asked one of my team mates to evaluate centos 5.2 as a more stable distro for our business use than Fedora which we have used for years.
His main objection so far has been the lack of a neat feature of recent Fedoras (at least since 7) that allows a user to login as himself if the screen is locked by another user (a switch user feature).
Is that feature available or is it planned?
Thanks.
-Tom
Hi, I just noticed that the function is already in CentOS 5, but is disabled. To enable for the current user open a terminal and type (on one line if it wraps):
gconftool-2 --type bool --set /apps/gnome-screensaver/user_switch_enabled TRUE
then activate the screensaver (for testing):
gnome-screensaver-command -a
for system-wide use, as root (always one line):
gconftool-2 --direct --config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/ --type bool --set /apps/gnome-screensaver/user_switch_enabled TRUE
(source: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeScreensaver/FrequentlyAskedQuestions)
regards
Lorenzo Quatrini
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