[NBLUG/talk] Multiple GDM instances?

[Lincoln Peters]

It works!  Now, if there was only a way to give each login screen a 
different background so that I could easily tell them apart...




Lincoln




>From: Eric Eisenhart <eric at nblug.org>
>Reply-To: talk at nblug.org
>To: talk at nblug.org
>Subject: Re: [NBLUG/talk] Multiple GDM instances?
>Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 12:24:05 -0700
>
>On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 12:10:09PM -0700, Lincoln Peters wrote:
> > I seem to recall that an older version of GDM (that came with Ximian 
>GNOME
> > 1.4) had the ability to simultaneously run more than one GDM process at 
>a
> > time (one on tty7, one on tty8, etc.).  Is there a way to do that using 
>the
> > version of GDM that ships with RedHat 9?
>
>You can run "gdmflexiserver" to immediately start up a new server on the
>next TTY.  Or "gdmXnest" to start up a new server inside a window.
>
>To always have a second GDM running on a second TTY, edit
>"/etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf", look for the "[servers]" section and add (or
>uncomment) a line like "1=Standard".
>--
>Eric Eisenhart
>NBLUG Co-Founder & Director-At-Large
>The North Bay Linux Users Group
>http://nblug.org/
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