On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 12:53 +0100, Markus Oehme wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I've got a somewhat exotic wish: I want to have two graphical logins on my > box. Currently I'm using /etc/init.d/xdm to start slim which in turn starts > an XFce session after login. All of this happens on vt7 (reachable via > ctrl-alt-f7). Now I wish for a second graphical login on vt8.
I don't know about slim, but some dm's (xdm, gdm) allow you to manage multiple servers if/when set up that way. > I can get a second graphical desktop by running 'startx -- :1' in a root > shell, but this looses all advantages of management through init-scripts. > What I currently hope for is a way to tell /etc/init.d/xdm to start two > instances of slim, one on vt7 and one on vt8. Bonus points if the second > instance of slim starts a fluxbox session instead of an XFce session upon > login. Do you think this is possible? I have no experience with slim, but this should be possible if slim isn't bone-headed (well you'd still have to select your session from the menu).
