On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 19:10, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: > Em Seg, 2003-08-18 às 18:11, Michel Dänzer escreveu: > > > BTW, is there a way of initiating a third server without restarting the > already existing ones?
Sure, you can use gdmflexiserver if you have set up flexible servers in the gdm configuration, or log in to a console and do startx -- :2 or xinit /path/to/session/manager -- :2 > > The logs don't lie > > I hope that's true in X. I wouldn't hold it as absolute truth, from > the experience I have with other systems. I meant X server logs specifically. I have been making very good experience in this regard (I don't remember a single case where I couldn't trust X server log output, but maybe I'm just good at suppressing those memories ;). > > the keyboard configuration was always identical on > > server startup (unless the logs contained a relevant difference you > > didn't post), the difference was likely caused by a client. > > OK, which clients could be those, and how to investigate the > possibilities? Frank made good suggestions for this. > And why they would be OK now, since the only thing I am conscient of > having changed was the given lines in XF86Config-4? That's perhaps the most interesting question. :) Not really more tricky than why the old settings wouldn't always cause the same behaviour though. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
