Re: Nautilus as another user

[Daryl Warkentin <warkentin sedsystems ca>]

On Wed, 2003-04-30 at 09:52, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On 30 Apr 2003, Daryl Warkentin wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I would like to run Nautilus as root while logged in as another user.
> > When I do this the root user's nautilus window works great until I close
> > it. At that point it takes over the background and I have to kill the
> > root nautilus process to get it back to normal.
> > 
> > Is it possible to run Nautilus as two different users at the same time?
> > 
> > Is there a command line argument or gconf setting I can make to allow me
> > to run Nautilus as the root user without it interfering with other
> > Nautilus processes?
> 
> At the moment you have to start the root one with --no-desktop. However, 
> we should really be checking if nautilus is already managing the desktop, 
> using a manager selection or something. That way we wouldn't get this 
> problem.
> 
> This is on my TODO list, however that list is astronomically large, so 
> patches are accepted.

As always. ;) Nautilus rules. Thanks for all the hard work. I'll see
what I can do about the patch.

-- 
Daryl Warkentin
Hardware Engineering
SED Systems
www.sedsystems.ca