[Techtalk] Need Suggestions: How To Multi-Language ?

[Kathryn Andersen]

On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 10:53:48PM +0100, Figaro wrote:
> I am hoping there may be a way to run several instances of oo.org. and
> gnome0term., or konsole and emacs with different language and keyboard
> setups from within my existing Debian SID machine.
> 
> My thinking is that perhaps a way would be to create several new users
> each with a locale set to one of the languages, but this would not (as
> far as I understand) allow me to run them concurrently as individual
> x-sessions enabling one to simply ctrl-alt-F?(something) between
> them..or would it?

Yes, you can run multiple X-sessions at once, each one logged in as a
different user.
I can think of a couple of different ways that this could be done.

A. Don't use a graphical login at all.  That is, turn off gdm/kdm/xdm
(whichever one you're using).
Log in to the console as User A, start X by hand with xinit or startx.
Ctrl-Alt-F2; log in to this next console as User B;
start X by hand with display set to :1.0 rather than :0.0

Switch between them with Ctrl-Alt-F7 and Ctrl-Alt-F8

B.  Use qingy rather than gdm/kdm/xdm as your login manager.
http://qingy.sourceforge.net/

This could be a little trickier to set up, as it requires you to get the
framebuffer working.  But once you have it set up, it's really nifty.
With qingy, you can log in either to a straight terminal, or to X, and
you can do so multiple times -- it takes care of the X-display stuff for
you.  And you would switch between the two logins with Ctrl-Alt-F1 and
Ctrl-Alt-F2 (or whichever consoles you used to log in at).

Kathryn Andersen
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