solrac
Mac Ninja
You know how in Windows XP, you can log out, but leave all your applications open? Then someone else can log in, and use the computer, then log out. Then you can log back in and all your apps are how you left them??
This makes that aspect of XP superior to OS X.
But... this can be done on X too!!!
here's how (we just need a cocoa developer to make this REALLY a cool program...)
There's a program called Pseudo that runs any appplication you drag onto it as the root user. I had to work with some files that had root permissions only, and instead of doing su root on the terminal, I thought it would be fun to try launching the finder with root using pseudo.
So what happened is, I had TWO instances of Finder running! I saw the finder that had my settings, as well as the Finder that had root settings! (Smaller font, home button went to /private/var/root, etc.....)
Using ps -aux in the terminal, I could see indeed two instances of Finder were running. One with user solrac, the other with user root.
Then BING!! Bright idea. Someone make an app that lets you "log out"... yet just sets the computer to quit the finder, and start a new finder under the new user's name, and hide all applications under the old user, and start new instances of applications under the current users name.
That would be tantamount to Windows XP's functionality, maybe even better, depending on bells and whistles of the app.
I don't know why Apple didn't make it work like this....
Have fun :-D
-Carlos-
This makes that aspect of XP superior to OS X.
But... this can be done on X too!!!
here's how (we just need a cocoa developer to make this REALLY a cool program...)
There's a program called Pseudo that runs any appplication you drag onto it as the root user. I had to work with some files that had root permissions only, and instead of doing su root on the terminal, I thought it would be fun to try launching the finder with root using pseudo.
So what happened is, I had TWO instances of Finder running! I saw the finder that had my settings, as well as the Finder that had root settings! (Smaller font, home button went to /private/var/root, etc.....)
Using ps -aux in the terminal, I could see indeed two instances of Finder were running. One with user solrac, the other with user root.
Then BING!! Bright idea. Someone make an app that lets you "log out"... yet just sets the computer to quit the finder, and start a new finder under the new user's name, and hide all applications under the old user, and start new instances of applications under the current users name.
That would be tantamount to Windows XP's functionality, maybe even better, depending on bells and whistles of the app.
I don't know why Apple didn't make it work like this....
Have fun :-D
-Carlos-