[X2go-user] Starting multiple sessions

[John Williams]

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 8:03 AM, Paul van der Vlis <paul at vandervlis.nl> wrote:

> What I do normally, is to log-out the user in the session. Then the
> session terminates.

Thank you for that tip! I did not know that, but I just tried it and
it works for me, too!

So, now I know that I can terminate a session by "Log Out..." from
within the session. And I can suspend a session by clicking on the "X"
of the X2S window.

Now if only the list of suspended and running sessions (the list that
pops up when you try to start a session on a server that already has
sessions) would include the session name, I would be able to manage
all my sessions efficiently.

> I give the session the same name as the server where I connect to.

That is less useful for me since I have multiple sessions on the same
server. Usually I name the sessions with the server name and then a
number or suffix to identify the purpose of the session.

> Do you make many connections to the same server?  Why?

Yes, at the moment I have 5 sessions on my main server. I have several
computers in the house, and generally each computer has at least 1
session running or suspended on the server. Sometimes I have two or
more client sessions running on the same client computer, since I
sometimes use sessions for a certain task or application. That way I
can resume the session from another computer without disturbing the
other task(s) that are running on the client computer that was running
the session before I switched the session to another computer. Whew,
that was a mouthful. But hopefully you get the idea.