What I liked about Gnome in Fedora 7 was user switching. I could lock my screen, say "switch user", and my relative would log on into his or her session. I could switch back to my existing session later. I asked how it could be done with fvwm2, and did not get a very definitive answer. But I found it out with a lot of ps-ing and googling. This does work with fvwm2, as well, and here's how: Beginning of session: gnome-screensaver & When locking: gnome-screensaver-command --lock i