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[Peter Garrett]

On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 19:00:54 -0400
Matthew Flaschen <matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu> wrote:

> 
> Peter Garrett wrote:
> > On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 17:44:38 -0400
> > Matthew Flaschen <matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu> wrote:
> > 
> >>> i.e: A simple app that lets you select/change your DE to Gnome, KDE, or
> >>> XFCE...
> >> Actually, I think you can run e.g GNOME in one X session and KDE in
> >> another, at the same time.  See http://linuxgazette.net/issue80/tag/3.html .
> > 
> > The method described in that link works, of course - but an easier way is
> > to use "gdmflexisever" to get a new login
> 
> That doesn't seem to be working for me.  I click it and there's no
> visible effect.  Maybe it's because I'm already using two sessions.  I
> just installed GNOME as well, so that might have something to do with it...

Ah - it appears that the devs in their wisdom have decreed that the same
user may not log in twice - I just tried it with my user and Fluxbox, and
it just returns me to gnome again with a password dialogue to unlock the
session.

It appears to work if you log in as a different user,  though.

Personally I think this restriction is silly, since the startx -- :1 method
works anyway ... but what would I know ? ;-)

Peter