Hi all, Context: Debian Wheezy x86_64 + all available updates.
Some software i'm developing requires me to test it under multiple desktop environments. To that end, i want to have a multihead X setup: i want my usual i3-based desktop environment on VT7, but then have GDM3 greeters available on VT8 and VT9, accessible via Ctrl-Alt-F8 and Ctrl-Alt-F9, which i can use to log in to other desktop environments, as users other than myself, whilst keeping my i3 session visible on VT7. The relevant GDM documentation: https://help.gnome.org/admin/gdm/3.4/gdm.html seems to me to imply that this is possible, but doesn't describe how. After doing some Web searches, i tried modifying /etc/gdm3/daemon.conf to include either: [servers] 0=Standard 1=Standard 2=Standard or [servers] 0=Standard device=/dev/tty7 1=Standard device=/dev/tty8 2=Standard device=/dev/tty9 but neither change made GDM3 greeters available on VT8 or VT9. (Although i also note that trying to hide a particular non-system user, call them 'testuser', from the face browser in the greeter via: [greeter] # Only include selected logins in the greeter Include = alexis Exclude = bin,root,daemon,adm,lp,sync,shutdown,halt,mail,news,uucp,operator,nobody,nobody4,noaccess,postgres,pvm,rpm,nfsnobody,pcap,testuser has no effect, so maybe i'm modifying the wrong config file?) Having spent a couple of hours trying to solve this issue, i installed KDM and discovered i can achieve the desired result with KDM with a single line: StaticServers=:0,:1,:2 i'm happy to use KDM as my login manager, but now i'm curious: is the setup i want possible with GDM3? Alexis. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87iog7qxwi....@gmail.com
