Suspend/Resume X sessions?

[William Park]

On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 10:43:51PM -0500, 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?

As for your original question... short answer is 'no'.  If your X
session ends, that's that.

> >
> >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 X:
	xlock

In console:
	vlock		# just single console
	vlock -a	# everything

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