Ping. Any thoughts on the below? Does GDM3 actually not support multihead X? If it does, is there any documentation (by which i mean: not the source itself) to describe how to set it up for multihead X?
Alexis writes: > 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/877fwcekll....@gmail.com
