Gnome and KDE: Start new Session button?

[Ronny Buchmann]

Am Mittwoch, 22. Oktober 2003 19:07 schrieb Christoph Wickert:
> Noah Silva [Mailing list] schrieb:
> >I think GDM should just always keep one more login screen open than the
> >currently used ones.  (i.e. start on F7, and then when you log in, start
> >another login on F8, etc.)... but we can all wish...
> >
> > -- noah silva
>
> This is what it usually does: the default /etc/kde/kdm/xservers looks
> like this:
>
> # Examples for multiple local X displays:
> # :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 vt9 -bpp 16
> # :1 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :1 vt10 -bpp 8
>
> :0 local at tty1 /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp vt7
> :1 local reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X :1 -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp vt8
> :2 local reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X :2 -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp vt9
> :3 local reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X :3 -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp vt10
>
> The reserve xservers are started by "Start new Session". I'm not sure,
> what this button does. As a workaround I've setup 2 local displays (I
> think 2 are enough), but the second one is not on demand.
>
> Mayby someone from Redhat call tell, why this feature is disabled in the
> versions of gnome and kde shipped with fedora.
I think it is related to pam_console, multiple users on the console are 
problematic.

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ronny

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