Multiple desktop clients per kdm server

[Brian Densmore]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Densmore 
> 
> I believe that the tty2 could be written as tty[1-6]
> (where [1-6] means to write in any one of tty1 ...)
> and still have the same effect ...
> I'll try the tty1 and tty2 methods tonight and report back my
> findings.
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Brian Kelsay 
> > 
> > 
> > So, for clarity sake, the :0 is the first Xserver instance 
> > and it is being attached to the 7th virtual terminal (vt7).  
> > The :1 is the 2nd Xserver and it is attached to the 8th 
> > virtual terminal...
Works as expected. vt7 and vt8 are used and Alt-F7 and Alt-F8
work to get to the screens (Ctrl-Alt-Fn from inside X). 
> > 
> > >>> Jeremy Turner <> 11/30/04 01:46PM >>>
> > On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 11:13:02AM -0600, Brian Densmore wrote:
> > > I'm running kdm and would like to know if anyone is
> > > running more than one desktop simultaneously?
> > 
> > Check the /etc/kdm/kde3/kdm/Xservers file.  I have a line that says:
On my system it is /etc/kde3/kdm/Xservers and there are commented out
lines like the one below. Although they have "reserve" in between the local..
and the X path. I removed that and restarted the system. I know I didn't
need to do that. The commented out lines used progressive tty numbers
so I left it alone. Hopefully it was done that way for a purpose. I
was too chicken to change it. Maybe over the weekend when (theoretically)
I have more time to fix anything I break.

So I now have entries like this in my Xserver file:
...
:0 local at tty1 /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp vt7
:1 local at tty2 /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp :1 vt8
#:2 local at tty3 reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp :2 vt9
#:3 local at tty4 reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp :3 vt10
#:4 local at tty5 reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp :4 vt11
#:5 local at tty6 reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp :5 vt12
...

You'll note the there is a :1 on the second line. This is necessary.
It won't work without it.

> > 
> > :0 local at tty1 /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp vt7
> > 
> > My guess is that you would add a line just below it that says:
> > 
> > :1 local at tty2 /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp vt8
> > 

So Thanks again Jason, I didn't find that in any of the man pages
I looked at. Just curious did you find it in a man page, or by browsing?

Brian