IMHO I don't think a second X session is a good idea to keep your desktop away from your girlfriends desktop. I created a persistent desktop session wrapper called ViceWM for Radados Linux, my Linux distribution. The persistent desktop session lets you quickly switch between users without shutting any programs down. http://www.silicontao.com/software/ViceWM/ViceWM.html
Basiclly ViceWM is a VNC wrapper for the IceWM desktop. I also expanded it to include the same features for the KDE desktop and the same could be done for Gnome or any X desktop. The second desktop command for Xorg. I just tested this on my Hydra system. It works great, maybe faster with only 1 or 2 monitors, I have 4. /usr/bin/Xorg :1 -query 192.168.0.1 Replace the 192.168.0.1 with the second server IP. On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Mark Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/22/08, Royce Souther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You could just run a second X session on DISPLAY :1 and have it set to > query > > the other system. Switching between systems would be as simple as > > Ctrl+Alt+F7 or Ctrl+Alt+F8. You would not have GL or 3D support on the > > system at DISPLAY :1 > > > > To do this you need an /etc/init.d/ script that starts up after your > > [G|K|X]DM because these DM's try to start on :0 by default. I thing the > > command is something like /usr/X11R6/bin/X :1 -query <other server IP> > where > > <other server IP> is the IP address of the other server. The other server > > needs XDMCP turned on. I did this with XFree86 but have not tried with > Xorg, > > it should be very similar. > > Thanks Royce! > > I was looking for something the syntax for running a second X session > a while ago, but it quickly became apparent that I did not know what > the heck to search for. > > I was wanting to run one X session as my user, and the other as my > girlfriends, so her sessions (facebook, gmail, etc.) would not collide > with mine. My next step is figuring out how to get the .xinitrc > script interpreted properly. The only way I was able to get a window > manager running was to run an xterm with -display :1, and then in that > xterm run the window manager. > > That works, of course, but is a little kludgey. > > -Mark C. > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > -- http://www.Radados.org
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