From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 18 16:58:37 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA17939 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 16:58:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA17932 for ; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 16:58:31 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id RAA22651; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 17:50:14 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199603190050.RAA22651@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: xdm runnign twice? possible? To: fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner) Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 17:50:13 -0700 (MST) Cc: pete@sms.fi, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <96Mar18.110913pst.177478@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> from "Bill Fenner" at Mar 18, 96 11:09:10 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > 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.