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Open GUI programs as a fast-switched-out user
Authored by: niloc132 on Apr 07, '04 04:23:26PM
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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