Re: looking for suggestions: multiple users on the same desktop

"Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

I have several "sub" accounts (for specialized purposes not really a
part of an other account) which I do my work basically I have:

aryeh -- my personal account
web -- maintain my web site
dev -- development/testing of software
dep -- seperation of development and production code

I almost always login into aryeh (xfce via xdm). Both web and dev
require the use of variuous X applications but I don't want to logout
and login back in and/or have to invoke the app from the cmd line
(i.e. xhost +; setenv DISPLAY :0; app cmd line)... I am looking for a
way to make it so I can launch apps from a desktop panel and/or icon
on the desktop and make it ask what user to run it under (or somehow
or another make it aware that not everything is to be ruin as
"aryeh")... ideas?

An easy approach is to use Xnest to open a nested X session as user
dev or whatever. You can find examples in ``OnLamp'' columns, if I
remember well.

Another way is to wrap is to use SSH's X connexion transfert, you can
wrap your applications in scripts like this:
`ssh -X dev@localhost $PROGRAM'

A more complex approach is to design a way to `pass' DISPLAY
information and XAUTH(1) information to your alternative accounts.
You have to do it yourself (I guess) and still must wrap application
into suitable scripts.

Hope this helps.
--
Cheers,
Michaël
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