<div>On 6/30/05, Mustafa Abbasi <<a href="mailto:lordverminard@gmail.com">lordverminard@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> i have one computer for the entire family. i am continously working either downloading or something else. thing which do not recive logginf out well. i was wondering if my parents could login without me logging out and my procceses stopping. you know like in windows xp. don't think i am trying to copy windows and bash me please. this would essentially solve many probs and prevent my parent from destroying the computer by giving them less powers.</blockquote><div> Ctrl+Alt+F1 startx -- :1 </div> switch between X sessions Ctrl+Alt+F7, Ctrl+Alt+F8 also if you download or whatever is console only try "screen" It looks like its built into hoary: screen wget <a href="http://downloaders.com/bigfile">http://downloaders.com/bigfile</a> Ctrl+a d [detached] then, later come back and do screen -r to recover your screen and use your download. Regards, Todd <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">-- ubuntu-users mailing list <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com"> ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users </a> </blockquote></div>