switch user

Brian J. Tarricone bjt23 at cornell.edu
Fri May 2 20:25:08 CEST 2008


Paul Cartwright wrote:
> hi,
> I just added and am starting to use xfce. I have a Dell desktop, with NVIDIA 
> card, and KDE was giving me some troubles... xfce seems MUCH faster and 
> lighter, but still easy to use.
> My MAIN issue is, this is a 2-person PC, me and my wife. We both login and 
> stay logged in, but she uses KDE, and I don't want to change. She knows how 
> to CTRL-ALT-F8 from my login to get to hers, so I like to keep me logged in 
> first (F7), then log her in. The problem is, I can't find a switch-user app 
> on xfce, so I can log her in. Is it missing??

It doesn't exist.

> I noticed when I ran KDE, klibido would consume 100% of my cpu ( duo-core), 
> but with xfce, it only runs about 10%, I REALLY like that!!
> I used to run Kontact, for email & RSS feeds, but liferea isn't bad, I can 
> live with that. What about a calendar app???

Try Orage.

	-brian




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