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Open GUI programs as a fast-switched-out user
I can tell you one use for this, if I understand it correctly. It would allow you to have two copies of the same app open, each with their own set of preferences. You could create a second, "dummy" user, and then login to your own account and open a second copy of, say, Safari, the preferences for which are saved in Dummy's library.
Open GUI programs as a fast-switched-out user
Does this work? So, I could run a Mac program- let's use Mac Mail as an example- on a remote machine using the "target" user's preferences? I could see this being very helpful to troubleshoot client issues in a technical support capacity. Have you tried this yet? I haven't, but I will later tonight.
Open GUI programs as a fast-switched-out user
From my testing and understanding of this, tht would not work - when it launches the app, it does so in the other user's screen, even though that is not active.
OTOH, what you are looking for can also be done - if you sudo a task as another suer, it will run more than one copy of a program. I have an alias in my .bash_login for suTextEdit to have root run TextEdit with a given document, which opens another copy of the program, except with root permissions. (I believe the line is alias "suTextEdit"="sudo /Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit";) - I think this bit of code was taken off this site... I'm sure that can be modified to your liking. (Extra thought:) What about launching another dock...say on the side instead of the bottom... |
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