On Mon, 6 May 2002, Jay Kline wrote: > Yes, you can have as many as you want running. I used to have one on vt7 and > vt8, each at a different resolution for various things. However, I ran into > a few problems. The biggest was the video card. There is only so much memory > those things have, and when you switch between them, it can screw some things > up (just how they are displayed). You also run into the problem of how much > physical memory and CPU time you have. If you want to do this effectively, > make sure you have a beefy system. > > To do it, you just need to set up XDM to set up multiple screens. KDM uses > the XDM stuff, so take a look at /etc/X11/xdm/ (or whereever they are for > you) you will want to create new entries in there. My current setup is not > normal, so I cant give any examples, but if you read the man pages for xdm > you should be able to figure it out.
There is a file (/etc/X11/xdm/Xservers) in the xdm config dir, but with this one you start several X servers. And you have to predetermine how many users will use the computer at the same time. The perfect solution would be (as in WinXP...) to start only one X server, and when you lock your screen (you leave your computer) other users could login as well, without touching your existing session. And with a key combination you could change among the running sessions after having yourself reauthenticated. -- Gabor Gludovatz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Phone: +36 (20) 9 109 129 http://www.sopron.hu/~ggabor/ * http://gludo.sopron.hu/gpg.txt GPG fingerprint: 8D0C 6AE8 5875 751E 5122-1DAE 4990 1A4E BC2E C8B9 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
