I'm running kdm and would like to know if anyone is running more than one desktop simultaneously? Because of my wife's computer (il)literacy I currently run two desktops on my primary desktop PC, so that she always has one session up, but I currently log in to a terminal and xinit /usr/bin/x-window-manager -- :1 & to launch a second desktop for me to use. I'd like X to launch two at boot up so I don't have to do that extra step. I'm sure there is a way to do it, but the documentation isn't specific enough to inform me of the exact syntax I need to do it. Anyone?
Thanks,
Brian Densmore
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:
:0 local@tty1 /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp vt7
My guess is that you would add a line just below it that says:
:1 local@tty2 /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp vt8
Additionally, if you're not too concerned about physical security, you can put a section on the /etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc line that will autologin your user on vt7 and your wife's user on vt8. I don't use kdm, so I don't know exactly how that would look, but the top of the kdmrc file looks like it is possible.
HTH,
Jeremy
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