Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 10:02:03 +0100 From: lutz@muc.de (Lutz Albers) To: khetan@iafrica.com (Khetan Gajjar) Subject: Re: Using xdm, using DIFFERENT mice on same machine for two sessions Message-ID: <199701230906.KAA02055@tavari.muc.de> Resent-Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970124020250.365B@chain-work.iafrica.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970122184632.434A-100000@chain-work.iafrica.com>
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In article <Pine.BSF.3.95.970122184632.434A-100000@chain-work.iafrica.com>,
khetan@iafrica.com (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 :-(
Don't let xdm start the server. Remove the lines from Xservers (but keep
xdm running), and start the servers (i.e. in /etc/rc.local) with
/usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_S3 -indirect <machine-name-where-xdm-is-running>
or
/usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_S3 -query <machine-name-where-xdm-is-running>
The first will get you a host menu, the second a direct login.
Start the other server the same way.
ciao
lutz
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