[Tfug] Spawn X into different virtual screens from login manager?

[Justin Zeigler]

Mike Morrell wrote
|   How can I setup my login manager (KDM or GDM) so that once I login the
| actual session opens in a new virtual screen leaving the login manager
| open in the current one?  Right now by default once I login the login
| manager closes and the session takes over that screen.  Instead, I would
| like to leave the login manager open so I can continually log on as
| different users with each login spawning a new virtual screen for that
| users KDE/Gnome session.
| 
| 
| Thanks,
| 
| Mike

Mike,
   This would be a very bad idea. display managers usually (gdm/kdm) run
as a trusted user, and cannot do anything that is not defined in there
configs. Having the able to start a new process upon common user request
would be a serious security risk.

  However, there are tricks. On my home system, I run 4 xservers (one
each for the wife, the 2 kids, and myself). with this, each user simply
has to hit ctrl+alt+f# to get to their screen. with gdm this is very
easy, just change a [servers] section to the bottom of gdm.conf:

[servers]
0=Standard vt7
0=Standard vt8
0=Standard vt9
0=Standard vt10

This has worked in both Debian and Mandrake for me.

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Justin Zeigler
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