[ltp] Off topic about Bit Torrent

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Don Perley (perley@adelphia.net) (Emailias: REPLY-MASKED) wrote:
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> The only down side I've seen is that it needs to be running on a graphic 
> console (whether X or windows).  If the computer needs to  be shared 
> among family members then in Linux you can't just leave it running and 
> log off.  In XP it can keep running in a swapped out login.

But you can leave your X session alone and start another by pressing 
Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get to the text login, logging in and typing
	startx -- :1
which will start up X as if you had logged in via GDM or whatever 
display manager you have.  You can switch between the two sessions with 
Ctrl-Alt-F7 (the first graphical login, :0) and Ctrl-Alt-F8 (the second, 
:1).

Alternately, if this is too much technobabble for the rest of your 
family, you could initially log in via :1 and leave GDM as is for 
everyone else, then they don't have to do anything differently.