Re: list archives?

["Martin K. Petersen" <mkp SunSITE dk>]

>>>>> "Trever" == Trever Furnish <trever wondious com> writes:

Trever> I'm completely new to this list, so excuse me if this is a FAQ
Trever> (and please enlighten me as to the location of any list
Trever> archives or GDM FAQ - I was unable to find either of those).

There aren't any - yet.  Pending SunSITE being moved to a new machine.


Trever> The description field of the Redhat packages of gdm say that
Trever> it "supports running several different X sessions on your
Trever> local machine at the same time".  Could someone verify that
Trever> that is true and elaborate on what is meant by "several
Trever> sessions at the same time"?  Or point me towards documentation
Trever> where it's described?

What it means is that (unlike xdm) gdm will serialize spawning of the
local X servers.  So you can run multiple (gdm-managed) servers
simultaneously.

You can switch between these X servers using Ctrl-Alt-F7, Ctrl-Alt-F8,
etc.

Edit /etc/X11/gdm.conf to spawn more servers or use gdmconfig to do it.


Trever> I'm wondering whether gdm supports the type of "user
Trever> switching" that recent versions of Windows do - ie at the same
Trever> station, two users have gdm-launched X sessions running at the
Trever> same time, with one user's session visible from the current
Trever> terminal while the other user's session continues running.

I don't know Windows, but judging from your description you can
achieve the same effect, yes.


Trever> ...or maybe I'm just totally misinterpreting that line from
Trever> the rpm. Are there docs somewhere I'm missing?  The package
Trever> redhat distributes seems to have none, unless you count the
Trever> readme.

Not sure whether the manual has been updated recently.  I could point
you to the old one, but I'm fairly sure George changed the server
configuration in gdm.conf.

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