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[Discuss] can one safely login multiple times to the same user on a modern Linux desktop?



I don't spend the entire day in front of the computer. Most days I need
to do dishes or laundry, or leave the house on some errand. I rarely have
more than a couple hours in the evening to work on long-term projects
on the computer.

And during the rest of the day, I often need to look things up, which
typically takes a few seconds. If i had to login each time, then logout
afterward, I'd be doing that 50 times a day, wasting huge amounts
of time.

If I have to pee while watching a movie, I'd have to hold it in while
exiting mplayer and logging out, then when I returned I'd have to login,
start mplayer, and try to remember how many minutes into the movie
I had been. Way too disruptive of the movie-watching experience.



On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Rich Pieri <richard.pieri at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Sep 2012 15:49:57 -0400
> John Abreau <abreauj at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> helpful to do this between each and every bathroom break.
>
> You got bigger problems than taking time for bathroom breaks if you
> have only 2 productive hours a day and half of that time is spent
> setting up your workspace.
>
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> Rich P.
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