switching users... forget it!

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Fri, 2014-07-11 at 00:42 -0700, Cody Smith wrote:
> As has been said, ctrl+f# gets you to a tty, pure command line. That's
> not the way to switch users with a GUI, how you do so is to go to the
> menu in KDE, and search for an entry labelled "log out" or something
> similar (that varies depending on the menu you use), not all that hard
> once you know where to start. 😊
> 
> Ralph, next time, instead of scolding users for preconceptions, simply
> help them if they don't seem like a troll. If they do seem like a
> troll, simply ignore them.

JFTR

Does the OP want to run a complete X session as another user, than yes,
there's the need to log out and in, if the OP wants to run just an
application as another user, it can be done like this:

Assumed the X session does run for user A and the app should run for
user B.

xhost + ; gksudo -u B firefox

Firefox provides to use different profiles, but perhaps the OP wants to
run a kid protection session and wishes that a password is required to
run a firefox profile for adults, than changing the user instead of only
using a profile is a way to go. Sure, there are reasons to completely
log in as another user.

With Ctrl+Alt+F-keys it's possible to switch between different user
sessions when just a terminal is needed. This shouldn't result in a
blank screen, but a screen with a black background color and a prompt.

But again, Linux provides manifoldness, it's important not to switch
from one to the other distro, it's important to learn, at least to learn
how to ask smart questions. If we never mention this, then users never
will learn. Linux can not be used in a way a restricted OS such as
Windows can be used. And again "Mint" is _not_ "*buntu".

"Choose your forum carefully

Be sensitive in choosing where you ask your question. You are likely to
be ignored, or written off as a loser, if you:

post your question to a forum where it's off topic" -
http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#forum

Just because it's allowed to ask a Mint question on this list, doesn't
mean that this list is the right place.

Linux Mint is "based" on "Ubuntu", but other than "Kubuntu", "Ubuntu
Studio", "Xubuntu" etc. it's not official part of the Ubuntu
repositories, so providing help liekly could lead into a wrong
direction, assumed the "Mint" developers should do something completely
different.

Regards,
Ralf