Re: list archives?

[Trever Furnish <t wondious com>]

Martin K. Petersen wrote:

> > > > > > "Trever" == Trever Furnish <trever wondious com> writes:
> > > > > >            
> 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
>
> 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.
>  
Thanks - when I got off my lazy butt and looked at gdm.conf, it became 
more obvious and what your suggesting worked fine.

I do wish there were some way to not start X+GDM on the additional vc's 
until someone switches to them though.  Ie, user switches to vc8, then 
X+gdm starts on vc8, user logs in, uses it for a while, logs out, and if 
no one else logs into vc8 within 1 minute, X+GDM terminate on vc8 and 
the console switches back to vc7.

Then again, I haven't even looked yet to see if X+gdm uses significant 
resources when no one is logged in.  I'll have to check when I get 
home.  The only bit I'm really concerned about though is whether the 
second X server uses any video memory while it's not active, which would 
keep dri from working at nice resolutions and color levels.  Again, 
something I shouldn't talk about till I get DRI working on this box in 
the first place. :-)

Thanks again for the help.

--
Trever