Re: Multiple X servers on boot

dominator <qbzvangbe22@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 18:06:53 +0000, Michal Jaegermann wrote:

Assuming reasonably current version of gdm make section '[servers]'
in /etc/gdm/custom.conf to read

[servers]
1=Standard
2=Standard
....

As it says on a manpage for gdm:
"See http://www.gnome.org/projects/gdm/ for more details".

Michal

The file is actually gdm.conf-custom (on Ubuntu anyway).

OK. Minor detail. Likely you can specify in a compilation
time where to look for configuration files.

Thank you both. It's working like a charm.

You may want to add in a greeter section

BackgroundProgram=<something_of_your_own_here>

where this "something" produces different backgrounds depending on what
is in DISPLAY enviroment variable. What is shown is a question of your
imagination but that way you may see which server you going to use.
This will work if /usr/libexec/gdmlogin is used for a greeter instead of
/usr/libexec/gdmgreeter.

If doing that then check what is a meaning of configuration
variables like:

Logo
BackgroundProgramInitialDelay
RestartBackgroundProgram
BackgroundProgramRestartDelay
RunBackgroundProgramAlways

again in a location suggested by manpage.

Michal
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