Re: multiple gdm

[Stephen Adler <adler stephenadler com>]

Thanks, just to be clear, I don't want one gnome session running on two
X servers. I want to run two different instances of gnome, each with its
own X server. The idea would be, if all is working, when I boot my
system, I'll get two gdm login screens, one for each monitor. I could
then have to log in twice, perhaps under different user names. It may
sound like a bad hack, but I'm just wondering if somehow I could
configure gdm to work of some specified display, like :0.0 or :0.1 or
something like that.

On Thu, 2015-01-15 at 09:45 -0800, Jasper St. Pierre wrote:
> GNOME does not support multiple X11 screens. My understanding is that
> recent versions of nvidia proprietary added XRandR as a feature, which
> is what we require for multi monitor support.
>
> On Jan 15, 2015 6:31 AM, "Stephen Adler" <adler stephenadler com>
> wrote:
>         Guys,
>         
>         I'm not sure if this is the right mailing list to ask this
>         question so
>         forgive if I miss-posted...
>         
>         I have a system with two video cards, quadro K2200 and a K620
>         and the
>         nvidia propriatary driver will not configure a single desktop
>         (X server)
>         using both cards. It will configure two separate X servers or
>         X
>         displays, one for each card. So I thought maybe I could run
>         two versions
>         of gdm, one for each X server or X display (I'm not sure the
>         terminology
>         here.) :0.0 and :0.1 would be the -display syntax to use. This
>         way I
>         could have two separate sessions a bit like a KVM switch
>         expect I'd have
>         two monitors with one keyboard and mouse, and I would move my
>         mouse over
>         from one monitor to another to switch from one gnome session
>         to another.
>         
>         so... how would I configure gdm to run on two X displays or
>         servers?
>         
>         Thanks!
>         
>         Steve.
>         
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