[linux-help] Re: linux desktop

[james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

> Also, I would have to disagree on this.  Linux has one big challenge and 
> that's desktop environments.  They only thing my dad hates is having to 
> log in JUST to play Eric's Ultimate Solitare.  He says, if Linux didn't 
> use a login system and had a user friendly desktop, he would switch to 
> Linux.  But doesn't GNOME and KDE serve as a "user friendly" environment.  
> 

Kde's login manager (kdm) can have auto-login, if you are sure of the physical 
security of the computer, or if you don't care. I have never set it up that 
way, but I have setup some systems with kdm allowing passwordless logins, and 
the icon/user (eg click on username, and hit go)

Or of course, there is what I use at home for the general use computer: 4 X 
sessions, one for each person. (The only problem was initially it only had 64 
mb of ram, so it had to sometimes swap, but with another 256 mb (~$30) it 
doesn't touch swap.) Just give everyone Ctrl-Alt-F(7-12) key combos, and each 
time you reboot (which shouldn't be often) setup the X sessions again.

James L


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