Two different users on the same machine

[Paul Smith]

On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 3:17 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan
<pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > >> I am running XFCE on F9, and I would like to know how to allow two
>> > >> different users to login on my machine at the same time. On F8, I
>> > >> remember a menu entry
>> > >>
>> > >> System --> New Login
>> > >>
>> > >> but I cannot find it on F9.
>> > >>
>> > >> Any ideas?
>> > >>
>> > >> Thanks in advance,
>> > >>
>> > > I'm not sure I understand the problem... You have a user coming in
>> > (over
>> > > network?) and they can't login? Or what?
>> > >
>> > > If you just wan't a session as another user, you use
>> > > "xterm -e su - USER2" &
>> On my F8 system under Gnome the option is: Applications->System Tools->
>> New Login. But it is not clear why you want to use this and for what
>> purpose. It looks like it allows you to login as a new user without
>> stopping the status of the old login.
>>
>> The suggestions you received will allow another user login but so will
>> logging off and logging in again. So is the purpose you are trying to
>> achieve?
>
> He already said it in the original post: to allow two users to use the
> machine at the same time. I interpret "at the same time" to mean "let
> someone log in to his own X session on the same physical screen without
> me having to log out of my session, or vice versa". It's called Fast
> User Switching. I used to use this all the time when the rest of my
> family didn't have computers of their own. I still use it on occasion to
> try something on Gnome without having to log out of KDE.

Patrick's interpretation of what I am wanting is fully correct.

Paul