From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 23 00:14:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA06226 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 23 Jan 1997 00:14:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA06221 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 1997 00:14:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id AAA23689; Thu, 23 Jan 1997 00:13:09 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 00:13:09 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Khetan Gajjar cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using xdm, using DIFFERENT mice on same machine for two sessions In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, Khetan Gajjar wrote: > Hi there. > > I'm trying to get xdm to display login prompts on two seperate consoles, > using DIFFERENT X servers, each one using a DIFFERENT mouse to get around > the apparent problem of xdm not allowing the same mouse to be shared. > > I've played around with /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers, to look something > like > > :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_S3 > :1 local /usr/X11R6/bin/Xaccel :1 > > but this causes all sorts of horrible problems, making the machine > horribly unstable. I hope someone out there can help! > > I've looked in the -questions archive, and can't find anything. I've tried > the xdm man page, and according to that, the above should work - but it > doesn't :-( They're trying to use /etc/XF86Config most likely. I think there is an option to the X server to point it to a different config file. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major