On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 14:18, Julian King wrote: > > 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 Thanks. Do you mean you have a patch to the gdm source that does that? -- -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Keith Dart <mailto:kdart kdart com> <http://www.kdart.com/> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Public key ID: B08B9D2C Public key: <http://www.kdart.com/~kdart/public.key> ============================================================================
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