On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 12:25:38PM -0500, Dave Feustel wrote:
| > because it is already running?
|
| But I ran KDE by manually starting it for a long time.
| What is the point of a graphical login for only one user?
You can log out and let another user use the computer, letting them
log in (graphically or textually) to their own session.
Besides that, if you log in on a text console, use startx(1) to launch
X, lock your X session when you leave your computer (of course) then
anyone can switch to the text console where you started X, suspend
(^Z) or stop (^C or ^\) that and access your account.
Not so when using xdm, xdm starts from rc, runs as root/_xdm and
guards you against this misuse.
| I expected that when I enabled xdm, more than one
| user could login and run kde (I.e 4 copies of kde could
| be run simultaneously on my computer, 1 each at C0-C3.
| I clearly have misapprehended something wrt graphical
| login. What am I missing here?
The fact that you can not run multiple X servers on one videocard, as
it currently stands.
You really should read up on ttys(5) and the X Windows.
Cheers,
Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd
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