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I haven’t yet seen any application where this would be required, so I can’t provide any more details. According to information I gathered, you might improve the situation in certain cases if you run the application using dbus-launch: ~ $ dbus-launch your-application Some of their functionality can be lost however, especially if the application tries to communicate over D-Bus with other processes. If you see these errors, you should unset XDG_RUNTIME_DIR variable first: ~ $ su - ~ $ unset ~ $ gcalctoolĪt this point most of your graphical applications should work just fine (the only problem I’ve found is that the global GNOME menu doesn’t work with them). The dconf errors are arguably a bug and you might lose some functionality because of that – application settings might not be loaded nor saved. There are some accessibility bus warnings, but I haven’t seen any loss of functionality, so I consider them mostly harmless. ** (gcalctool:3969): CRITICAL **: unable to create directory '/run/user/1000/dconf': Permission denied. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken. ** (gcalctool:3969): WARNING **: Couldn't register with accessibility bus: Did not receive a reply. If you log in using su and run a sample graphical application, it should work out of the box: ~ $ su - gamer -c gcalctool After that you can run any application under a different user account inside your desktop session. Well, it turns out Linux can do this too, more or less, but it needs a few tweaks.

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So how do I transfer it? Why on earth can’t I just run steam under the gamer account inside my kparal session and copy and paste it? Windows can do it! The string is too long to remember, I was offended by the idea to write it down (what do we have technology for if I need to use paper?) and I didn’t really want to save it in a plain text file on disk.

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But my financial passwords usually consists of 20 random characters and are safely stored in a password manager in the kparal session. When I tried to buy a game in Steam, I needed to log in to my Moneybookers account. malware added to some of their game updates), they certainly have some security checks and policies, but how reliable are those? Does Steam executes everything inside some sandbox? I don’t know and honestly, running Steam (and dozens of third-party binaries it executes) in a separate account seems like a reasonable trade-off. I trust Valve they are careful to not have any security incident (e.g. It downloads lots of external binaries and executes them. Not just because of performance, but also because my trust in Steam is far from being 100%. Obviously I run it under the gamer account. Just to play some background music, you need to fiddle with your data, set up permissions, etc. If you are inside gamer session, you can’t easily access some files in your kparal home folder that you would like to, e.g.You need to switch forth and back all the time to check your messages and reply. If you are inside gamer session, you don’t see any notifications from your kparal‘s IM clients, mail clients, etc.a hyperlink) from one account to the other, it involves saving it as a file, copying it and fixing permissions.

If you need to transfer a piece of text (e.g.

I like to know that the unknown script can’t delete my personal data by accident.īut using the second user account is sometimes also inconvenient: I do not really expect malware in these tools, but more likely serious bugs.

Running unknown and “not so trustworthy” tools and scripts, often downloaded somewhere from the Internet (i.e.

I use GNOME Fallback mode, so I get slightly better framerates (I have a very slow graphic card and it really makes a difference). In my setup I have a regular user account kparal and also a second user account gamer that I use for several purposes: Consider this a best-effort solution – it might work perfectly for some applications, but you can’t expect it to work in general.

I have talked to a few qualified people and I was told that Linux doesn’t support this properly and some applications might display some glitches or not work at all. Some of the advice might not be fully correct. The instructions are created for Fedora 18.Įverything mentioned here was discovered through a trial-and-error approach, I don’t have any expertise in this area. It involves some fiddling with the system configuration, this is not intended for general users without advanced system knowledge.

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In this blogpost I’ll describe how to run graphical applications under a different user account in your current desktop session (i.e.