On Wed, 2002-06-26 at 18:23, Simon Wong wrote: > On Tue, 2002-06-25 at 05:11, Hubert Chan wrote: > > I don't know if it's feasible for you (in terms of memory requirements, > > etc), but you might want to launch two X servers, one on vt7, and one on > > vt8. Then, if you're working on something, and your girlfriend wants to > > use the computer, she can switch to vt8 and log in as herself. This > > way, she gets to keep all her preferences, etc. > > I tried setting this up on my laptop with GDM (Gnome1). > > The problem is most of the time when someone logs out e.g. on vt8 my > session on vt7 dies too :-( > > I have setup GDM to NOT restart X servers. > > Is there something else I may be missing as I'd like to set this up too > so my Wife can start using Linux too :-)
I gave up on getting GDM to play nice with multiple logins a while back.
I just wrote a script to start X on the next available display. If your
wife needs to log in, she goes to vt1 - 6, logs in, and then runs the
script. (I call mine gnomelogin.) Works fine for me and my two
roommates, and they're both essentially computer illiterate. Here's a
copy of the script.
-- gnomelogin start --
#!/bin/sh
displaycounter=0
while lockfile -0 -r 0 -! /tmp/.X$displaycounter-lock 2>/dev/null; do
((displaycounter++))
done
startx -- :$displaycounter
rm -f /tmp/.X$displaycounter-lock
-- gnomelogin end --
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