On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 21:52:16 +0200
Alan Barrett <apb@cequrux.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 22 Dec 2007, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> > Figuring out who's running X is certainly a necessary step.
> 
> I think the right question is not "who's running X", but "who's
> responsible for the currently-active virtual console".  I often have
> different users logged in on different virtual consoles in text mode.
> It's been some time since last I did so, but I have also had different
> users simultaneously running X on different virtual consoles, with or
> without xdm (or kdm or equivalent).
> 
Plus things like gnome and kde user-switching.  (Aside: I'm not sure if
those work at the moment on NetBSD.  In the past, I've had success,
failure, and intermittent weirdness with kde on my wife's machine...)


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb