On 9/3/05, Paul Smith <phhs80@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Under KDE, gdmflexiserver does not work. Is there some alternative to > > > work on KDE? > > > > As you can see (http://pandora.iu-bremen.de/~mafgani/Screenshot.png), it > > works for me. The screenshot shows a nested gdmflexiserver (GNOME) > > started from KDE that was started as a nested gdmflexiserver from the > > root display (GNOME). > > Thanks, Thomas and Mostafa. It does not work in my case, as I have the > following /etc/sysconfig/desktop file, which is not the default one: > > DESKTOP="KDE" > DISPLAYMANAGER="KDE" > > There is a workaround to have, even so, two X sessions running simultaneously: > > 1. crtl+alt+f1 > > 2. login into the desired account; > > 3. startx -- :8 > > One can switch between the two X sessions with crtl+alt+f7 and crtl+alt+f8. > > I think it would be worthy to implement a more straightforward way of > achieving this for people like me who have the above > /etc/sysconfig/desktop, likewise Mandriva has done (and Suse as well, > I think). Meanwhile, the research efforts of Alexei Dets have produced a much better solution. As I reported before, under K Menu -> Switch User there was no entry for "Start New Session" on my computer, running FC4 and KDE. To have the "Start New Session" menu entry, Alexei Dets proposes the following: «I've experimented a bit and found out that "ReserveServers" entry in the "[General]" section is responsible for ability to start a new session. It also controls the total amount of the simultaneous X-sessions on the system. For example, if you don't have ReserveServers (or it is commented out) then you'll not have a menu entry to start a new session. If you'll have "ReserveServers=:1" you'll be able to start one additional session (you'll not be able to start third session - menu item will be disabled), "ReserveServers=:1,:2" - two additional sessions, "ReserveServers=:1,:2,:3" - three sessions etc.» Since I have done a clean installation of FC4, it is strange that the above-mentioned configuration is not done by FC4 at the installation time. Paul
