On 7/30/08, Hywel Richards <hywelbr at 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