On Thursday 11 August 2005 13:54, Mats O Jansson wrote: > On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Dave Feustel wrote: > > > What I dn't yet quite grasp is why there cannot be multiple independent > > instances of kde running, each one attached to a different virtual terminal > > (C0-C3) on the same computer. Then I could be logged on as two different > > users simultaneously, switching back and forth between screens using the > > ctl-alt-fcn keys. If this is not possible right now on OpenBSD, it might be > > an > > interesting project. > > I think you don't understand what a X-server is. It the part that talks > with the graphics card. You don't need a X-server to be able to run > X-applications on a machine. But you need a X-server on the machine > displaying the information. xdm makes it possible to start a session > on one machine from another and ttys has nothing to do with that. > > -moj
This is not what I would have expected, but I understand what you're writing and it makes sense to me.
