switch user

[David Mohr]

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Paul Cartwright <ale at pcartwright.com> wrote:
> On Fri May 2 2008, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
>  > > 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.
>
>  wow, hard to believe..

Why don't you just change your configuration to start two X servers to
begin with? Seems like that would work just fine for you.

>  >
>  > > 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.
>  ok, so I went here:
>  http://www.xfce.org/projects/orage/
>  and got this:
>  svn co http://svn.xfce.org/svn/xfce/xfcalendar/trunk orage
>
>  then, it was an exercise in frustration...
>  # ./autogen.sh
>  xdt-autogen: You must have "autoconf" installed on your system.
>              Download the appropriate package for your distribution,
>              or get the source tarball at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/.
>  paulandcilla:/home/pbc/Documents/software/orage# aptitude install autoconf
>  <SNIP>
>  Building tag database... Done
>
>  paulandcilla:/home/pbc/Documents/software/orage# ./autogen.sh
>  xdt-autogen: You must have "intltool" installed on your system.
>              You can download the source tarball from
>              ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/.
>  paulandcilla:/home/pbc/Documents/software/orage# aptitude install intltool
>  <SNIP>
>
>
>  paulandcilla:/home/pbc/Documents/software/orage# ./autogen.sh
>  xdt-autogen: You must have "libtool" installed on your system.
>              Download the appropriate package for your distribution,
>              or get the source tarball at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/.
>  paulandcilla:/home/pbc/Documents/software/orage# aptitude install libtool
>  Reading package lists... Done
>  The following packages are BROKEN:
>   libltdl3-dev
>   .....
>
>  paulandcilla:/home/pbc/Documents/software/orage# ./autogen.sh
>  .....<SNIP>
>  checking for libxfce4mcs-client-1.0 >= 4.4.0... not found
>  *** The required package libxfce4mcs-client-1.0 was not found on your system.
>  *** Please install libxfce4mcs-client-1.0 (atleast version 4.4.0) or adjust
>  *** the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
>  *** installed the package in a nonstandard prefix so that
>  *** pkg-config is able to find it.
>
>  # aptitude install libxfce4mcs-client-1.0
>  Reading package lists... Done
>  Building dependency tree
>  Reading state information... Done
>  Reading extended state information
>  Initializing package states... Done
>  Reading task descriptions... Done
>  Building tag database... Done
>  Couldn't find any package whose name or description
>  matched "libxfce4mcs-client-1.0"
>  ......
>
>  I'm getting real tired of this...

It seems like you are on a debian based system. Why didn't you simply
install orage from the repository, if you are so unfamiliar with
building from source?

~David