On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 04:11:36AM -0500, Berna Massingill wrote: >> On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 10:08:21AM -0400, Jim Cornette wrote: >> >> >> Berna Massingill wrote: >> >> >> [ snip ] >> >> >> >>>Applications --> System tools -->> New Login >> >> >>> >> >> >>>This will let you open different users for different consoles. There are >> >> >>>items like sound that don't work wel on the new login, but it is handy >> >> >>>for running KDE or XFCE in one console and Gnome in the other. >> >> >>> >> >> >>> >> >> > >> >> >The command-line version of this (for those who are into such things) >> >> >might be "X :1 -query <machinename> -once". >> >> > >> >> >I say "might be" because I just tried this on my newly-installed FC4 >> >> >system, and got (1) a blank screen with a little X in the middle, >> >> >and (2) error messages when I went back to the original screen >> >> >(with control-alt-F7). I also tried it from a text console, with >> >> >the same result. >> >> > >> >> >So I tried your GNOME-GUI way, described above, and that didn't work >> >> >either, though the symptoms were slightly different -- blank screen with >> >> >a cursor at the top, very similar to what was happening with the text >> >> >consoles before I applied the "copy libvgahw.a from an FC3 system" >> >> >fix discussed recently in this list. >> >> > >> >> >Hm. Anyone know what's wrong? This can be a useful thing to have. >> >> [ snip ] >> >> >> The properties in the command is the command "gdmflexiserver" on my >> >> computer. I ran this from the commandline and it brought up another >> >> screen for login on F8 While there was still a session on F7. This seems >> >> to be a function from gdm login manager. >> >> Do you remember doing anything special to enable this? I'm wondering >> why this (starting a second session as you described previously from >> a GNOME menu) would work for you and not for me. Update / some mysteries solved: (*) On my system gdmflexiserver starts a second graphical session, but on virtual terminal 9, not 8. (*) "X :1 -query localhost -once" also does *something* with virtual terminal 9, but whatever it is is not a huge success -- I get a blank screen with a little "X" in the middle. (*) The following lines appear in /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf: [xdmcp] # Distributions: Ship with this off. It is never a safe thing to leave # out on the net. Setting up /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny to only # allow local access is another alternative but not the safest. # Firewalling port 177 is the safest if you wish to have xdmcp on. # Read the manual for more notes on the security of XDMCP. #Enable=false I *think*, but I'm not sure, that all of this started working better when I changed "#Enable=false" to "Enable=true". Based on the comments, it does seem that "X :1 -query" won't work without this change. Further questions: (*) Why do these second X sessions use virtual terminal 9 rather than 8? (*) Why does "X :1 -query" still not work? (*) Where is the "-query" option to "X" documented, anyway? It doesn't seem to be in the man page for the "X" command. -- blm
