Re: [gdm-list] different autologin on each server?

[Brian Cameron <Brian Cameron Sun COM>]

Matt:

This is a known issue in GDM 2.20 and earlier.  There is a patch
available that you can use to make GDM support autologin on multiple
displays.  Note Comment #33 for the patch.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=336174

Aside from building GDM yourself with this patch, I don't think
you can get it to work.  If somebody wanted to finish up the
patch to address the issues raised about it, then we could put a
fix into the 2.20 branch.

I'm not sure how this works in the new GDM rewrite.  It may have
better autologin support, but it currently doesn't support
multi-display.

Brian


> I'm setting up a 2-seat system in which gdm runs 2 servers.  Is it
> possible to have a different user autologin to each of these server
> sessions?  One is a regular computer, for my kids, and the other is a tv
> running mythtv; it would be nice if the tv at least was always logged in
> as myth, but the other was free for my kids to use.
>
> these are my customizations to gdm.conf-custom:
> [servers]
>
> 0=Standard0
> 1=Standard1
>
> [server-Standard0]
> name=Standard server #0
> command=/usr/X11R6/bin/X -br -audit 0 -nolisten tcp -novtswitch
> -sharevts -layout Layout0
> flexible=true
>
> [server-Standard1]
> name=Standard server #1
> command=/usr/X11R6/bin/X -br -audit 0 -nolisten tcp -novtswitch
> -sharevts -layout Layout1
> flexible=true
>
> thanks for your help!  best,
> matt