How to logon on another gnome-session?

Vinicius cviniciusm at uol.com.br
Tue Jul 11 13:04:13 UTC 2006


Mikkel L. Ellertson escreveu:
> Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>> Vinicius wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I would like to allow another user to use CRTL+F2 to logon on another
>>> gnome session. Any ideas, please?
>>>
>>>
>> Are you starting in run level 3 (CLI) or run level 5 (GUI)? If you
>> are starting in run level 3, and using startx to start your X
>> secession, you could use "startx -- :1" to start another X
>> secession. If you are starting in run level 5, and using xdm as your
>> display manager, then edit /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers and add a line at
>> the end:
>>
>> :1 local /usr/bin/X
>>
> I forgot to add, if you are using gdm, then run gdmsetup, open the
> Security tab, and click on "Configure X Server. You can then click
> on Add/Modify and add a second X server.
> 
> In ether case, with the default setup and 2 X servers, the first one
> will be on VT7 and the second one on VT8. From X, you can switch
> from one to the other using Ctrl-Alt-F7 and Ctrl-Alt-F8.
> 
> Mikkel

It's working fine, thank you very much.

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