From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 6 6:55:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from srcso.globis.ru (globis.ru [212.248.80.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC31137B718 for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 06:55:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from igor@raduga.dyndns.org) Received: from raduga.dyndns.org (raduga.sochi.net [212.248.82.76]) by srcso.globis.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA15334 for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 18:40:59 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from igor@raduga.dyndns.org) Received: (from igor@localhost) by raduga.dyndns.org (8.10.1/8.10.1) id f26Estn23772 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 17:54:55 +0300 Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 17:54:55 +0300 From: Igor Robul To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: graphical login screen! Message-ID: <20010306175455.A23683@linux.rainbow> Reply-To: igorr@crosswinds.net Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200103060508.VAA61640@akira.lanfear.com> <3AA4F8EC.9CC635F5@callgtn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre4i In-Reply-To: <3AA4F8EC.9CC635F5@callgtn.com>; from erothwell@callgtn.com on Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 09:49:16AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 09:49:16AM -0500, Erik Rothwell wrote: > Unless you want to have multiple graphical login screens. Why? > > Has anyone accomplished this with gdm for instance? > > Instead of 8 virtual consoles, I'd rather have 4 graphical login prompts > and 4 text-based ones... but, I've never been able to make it work > correctly. I get hundreds of X errors and some stuff doesn't work... You need start separate X server for each virtual console. To do this you need specify :1 :2 :3 etc on command line while starting X server. -- Igor Robul, Unix System Administrator & Programmer @ sanatorium "Raduga", Sochi, Russia http://www.brainbench.com/transcript.jsp?pid=304744 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message