[GRLUG] multiple login on Mac

[Bob Kline]

I believe Sun was going to run X
on everything, but then discovered
it was too slow for the CPUs of the
time. Probably wouldn't be true today,
and X is open, but there'd still be the
bandwidth issue for many remote
users. Besides which Apple is not
noted for its interest in open software.

   -- Bob


On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Roger Roelofs <roger.roelofs at gmail.com>wrote:

> If you want to get technical, you can run X on the mac, but then it's
> not very mac-ish.  When I'm forced to edit graphics at work ( which I
> am horrible at BTW) I fire up XQuartz so I can run the gimp.  I've
> also used XQuartz talking to a remote x server and that works fine.
>
> On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Adam  Tauno Williams
> <awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2012-01-07 at 14:04 -0500, Roger Roelofs wrote:
> >> Mac graphical remote control is based on VNC.  You can use your
> >> account as a login credential to the VNC server.  Doing that doesn't
> >> create a separate graphical session.  You can log out of one graphical
> >> 'session' and log in as another user, but there is only one 'display
> >> context' so you can't have two users using the 'display' at the same
> >> time.
> >
> > Cool to know; that's what I expected [they don't have a remote or
> > frame-buffer type of 'display';  there display is linked to the physical
> > display].
> >
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