MultisessionX

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Description:

  • I wanted to logout so that others may login, but did not want to lose my Xsession.. When I walk away, my wife can login to her account but I won’t lose my session.
  • As the all-knowing and powerful ‘root’, I wanted to be able to spy on my user’s X sessions.
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    Features

  • Support for zenity, xdialog, and xmessage (xmessage provided as fallback).
  • Maintain multiple user logins from a single terminal without logging users out.
  • Reconnect to sessions from another terminal.
  • Multiple sessions per-user.
  • Mulitple connections to a single session. (vnc -shared)
  • Allows creation of non-persistent sessions — starts window manager normally to support features not available through VNC (high-speed video, opengl)
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    Other information

    Note: use with xdialog and an X11 login manager can be very similar to the behavior AND visual appearance of Windows 2003 with Terminal Services. I should note that this project was started early 2002, well before Windows 2003 was released! Just in case you were wondering ;-)

    Licensed under the general BSD license (no advertising clause). Copyright Eric Windisch and Justin A.

    Installation

    Per-user configuration:

    1. Copy multisessionx.sh to your $PATH
    2. Run vncpasswd as each user planning to use this software.
    3. Edit ~/.vnc/xstartup to launch your window manager (or desktop environment)
    4. Set multisessionx as your window manager (change your login manager’s configuration, and/or edit ~/.xsessionrc)

    Bugs

  • VNC has a lot of bugs and limitations. For instance, it does not support OpenGL or XV visuals. “Non-persistent” sessions provided as work-around. Also, VNC “messes up”, causing visual artifacts.
  • xdialog support not tested since version 0.5
  • IRIX support only tested with xmessage.
  • FreeBSD support not tested since version 0.5
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    Downloads

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