Re: Dual head, one GDM login on each screen

[George <jirka 5z com>]

On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 11:51:30AM -0500, Gordon Turner wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I have been messing around with my dual head setup and decided to try 
> and have a GDM login on each display.  I realize that this is more of a 
> Xfree86 config question, but was hoping someone might provide some 
> insight for the GDM side.  From what I have found I think I have to add 
> something like (this is from an old posting which was not in xml tags, 
> so I suspect that is maybe waaay outa date...)
> 
> [servers]
> 1=/usr/bin/X11/startx -- -layout layout0
> 1=/usr/bin/X11/startx -- -layout layout1

This will not work, you will have to have

0=/usr/bin/X11/X -layout layout0
1=/usr/bin/X11/X -layout layout1

But then I'm not sure if this will work.  Basically you need to get two
servers running, one for only the first screen and the other only for the
second screen.  I have no clue about how this is done with XFree :)

In any case, never use a startx command in the gdm config as that will do
weird stuff, gdm expects just the server.  Also each line must start with the
display number, so you need two different display numbers.

George

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