Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 17:50:13 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner) Cc: pete@sms.fi, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: xdm runnign twice? possible? Message-ID: <199603190050.RAA22651@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <96Mar18.110913pst.177478@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> from "Bill Fenner" at Mar 18, 96 11:09:10 am
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> > > Hey, is it possible to have xdm running twice? > > > >Since the mouse driver is not virtualized enough to support multiple > >users at a time, the answer is no. > > I used to run X multiple times -- but not xdm. If I tried running xdm on > multiple different TTY's, the system would hang, for an unknown reason. If, > however, person A logged in and said "xinit" and person B logged in and said > "xinit -- :1", life was wonderful. > > I guess I just got lucky with the mouse. Can't say that I know why it worked, > just that it did and I was happy. "his" and "hers" X sessions. =) This is what I assumed he meant. Running xdm multiple times makes no sense. One xdm can put logins on all your displays if you tell your X server to send xdm requests to get itself managed. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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