I had an issue, where I needed to let someone else login to my computer, and peek over my shoulder. But when they tried to start an x11vnc session, they of course got the “PAM authentication failed, cannot start X server” error message. It’s an easy fix, that I found on linuxquestions.org Read this entry […]
24
Apr
Allowing more then one user to start an X session (pam authentication)
Posted by Wayno Published in debian, howto, Skill Level: Easyno comment
12
Apr
I installed the Ubuntu 12.04 beta. Very slow login. Over 2 minutes. There is no way to adjust mouse sensitivity. (even with mouse adjusted as low as it will go, it’s far too fast.) I tried the gnome-fallback (gnome-panel). Unity was way way too confusing. I will try KDE before totally abandoning Ubuntu, (a 584 […]
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