Re: [gdm-list] gdm request - choose local Xserver at login

[Ritesh Khadgaray <khadgaray gmail com>]

On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 14:29 +0200, Pascal Ronecker wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I use a laptop, and somteimes it is connected to a "big screen",
> somtimes not.
> 
> What I do now is :
> - in xorg.conf, I declare two "serverlayout"
> - in gdm.conf I created two [server-xxxx] entries using the
> appropriate -layout option to match the xorg.conf

I have hacked /etc/X11/prefdm file on my Fedora7 box, and add a if-else
construct to check if my laptop is docked or otherwise using dmidecode .

	$ dmidecode|grep -i docked


set xorg.conf to default single head
If laptop is docked
	then use dual head xorg.conf
end if 


You could check out read-edid, instead of dmidecode if docking stations
are not used .

http://john.fremlin.de/programs/linux/read-edid/

	

> - gdm always starts 2 X servers, one for each layout 
> 
> So, when I bootup my laptop, AltF7 / F8 gives me the ability to choose
> the display I 'd like to use.
> 
> Matter is : then another x server is always there for nothing. Not a
> big thing though, a small footprint and no CPU whatsoever, but anyway,
> it isn't "clean". 
> 
> gdmflexiserver provides the ability to choose and start another
> Xserver _once_already_logged_in_
> 
> What would be *great* I think, would be to choose the display at the
> login screen.
> -> gdm starts only one xserver (the default one from gdm.conf)
> -> a dropmenu gives the choice between all the [server-xxxx] entries
> (just like gdmflexiserver proposes)
> -> once the choice made,  gdm kills the current X and restarts the one
> chosen.
> 
> Thx for your advice on that idea, 
> or maybe another way of doing what I'd like to.
> 
> 
> 
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