Re: selecting X invocations

[Julian King <jpk28 cus cam ac uk>]

> Is it possible to set up gdm so that a use can select how the X server
> itself will be invoked? This is different than "Sessions" because a
> session is run after the X server is already running. I want to run the
> X server with a different set of parameters (mainly specify a
> -xf86config option to use different X setups). I don't see how this can
> be done from the docs. Thanks for your help.=20
> 
> Please respond directly to me, I don't subscribe to this list. Thank
> you.
> 

We have a patch we use here which twiddles a symlink to change between 
high and low res modes.  So:

honey:xdm# tail -1 /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers
:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 -xf86config /etc/X11/Current-X/XF86Config vt07


honey:X11# ls -l /etc/X11/Current-X/XF86Config
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           13 Nov 14 15:02 /etc/X11/Current-X/XF86Config -> ../XF86Config

honey:X11# ls -l /etc/X11/XF86Config*
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         3599 Nov 14 14:48 /etc/X11/XF86Config
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         3598 Nov 14 14:48 /etc/X11/XF86Config-lowres


Julian