Re: need to remove screen saver

On Wednesday 13 February 2008 05:05:23 Enils wrote:
> you'd be serving better this users' list by providing solutions for
> people who ask for them, rather than picking apart another user's post
> who offers solutions that work.

I did provide more solutions, but I believe technical inaccuracies should 
always be corrected (even though I run Linux on all but one of the computers 
I use, I don't believe Linux users should spread untruths about competing 
products).

> When I talk about multiple X-sessions I am not referring to remote
> X-sessions. When you talk about multiple simultaneous users on windows
> you're thinking remote desktops.

No, I am not. I am referring to local sessions.

> Last I
> checked, you can't sit in front of a windows xp box and logon
> (physically not remotely) as 3-4-5-6 different users as you can on
> Linux.

This has been available since the initial release of Windows XP. Here is a 
document from Microsoft describing the feature:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/279765

This site has a screenshot: 
http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/windowsxp_beta2.asp

such as this one:
http://www.winsupersite.com/images/reviews/winxp_2462_000b.gif
and this one:
http://www.winsupersite.com/images/reviews/winxp_2462_media_035.gif

I am well aware that this has been possible under Linux since before the 
release of Windows XP (as I used it myself in 2000, without the "Switch user" 
menu options, with and without XDMCP etc.), I have also done development on 
Linux-based products systems allowing multiple simultaneous local X sessions 
on Linux, and that is one thing that Windows can't do natively (but, most 
Linux distributions don't ship with the multi-head tools required to do this 
by default anyway, and there are 3rd-party products for Windows that make 
this possible).

But, now we are quite far off-topic.

Regards,
Buchan