Suspend/Resume X sessions?

[James Knott]

William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 09:09:01PM -0500, James Knott wrote:
>> William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
>>> Is it possible to log out of an X session, keeping everything active,
>>> but making the machine available for someone else, and then later, log
>>> back in to the same state?
>> You don't have to log out, though you might want to lock the desktop.
>> Linux supports up to 6 independent desktops.
> 
> I have now seen this suggestion twice - how do you "lock" your desktop?
> I do it constantly at work, but I don't know how to do so on Linux.
> 
> Thanks to all for your suggestions, by the way, I've been reading up on
> them and some look like good solutions.

In KDE, you can simply lock the desktop, by right clicking and selecting
lock.  You can also configure the screen saver to lock the desktop.
However, when you use "switch user" to select another desktop, you are
also given the option to lock the current one.

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