On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 09:48:50AM -0600, Brian Densmore wrote:
So Thanks again Jason, I didn't find that in any of the man pages I looked at. Just curious did you find it in a man page, or by browsing?
I downloaded the kdm debian package from packages.debian.org and extracted the data.tar.gz to see what files. I looked in the kdmrc file, and it has a section that says:
# If the value starts with a slash (/), it specifies the file, where X-servers # to be used by KDM are listed; the file is in the usual XDM-Xservers format. # Otherwise it's interpreted like one line of the Xservers file, i.e., it # specifies exactly one X-server. # Default is ":0 local@tty1 /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp vt7" # XXX i'm planning to absorb this file into kdmrc, but i'm not sure how to # do this best. Xservers=/etc/kde3/kdm/Xservers
That seemed to tip me off as what file to change. And the from looking at the Xservers file, I figured that if the top line worked, we could copy it and make a few changes creating the second X server.
I ran the same setup with GDM for a while, so I knew the feature had to be there for KDM. I don't use KDM, but I figured the kdmrc file would be similar to the gdm.conf file, so it'd probably be a quick fix.
Jason replied back to me directly after my first reply and pointed out that some non-free X drivers might not support multiple X server instances, but looks like that doesn't affect your situation. Maybe it'll help someone out someday in the archives.
Jeremy