On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 06:04:35PM +0200, Shoshannah Forbes wrote:
>
> Since this topic came up anyway: I know gnome allows different users to
> have different screen resolution settings (on the same machine).
>
> Anybody know if there is a way to set that independently of gnome?
The only place I can think such a feature can be sanely implemented is
by the *DM . This is because each *DM login is to a newly-created X
session. Naturally gnome/kde/whatever is independent of the DM you
use (if you use one at all).
You can also pass explicit server arguments if you run xinit/startx .
> The
> xorg.conf file seems rather system-wide, which is a strange thing for
> a multi-user system.
The X server typically controls a unique local resource. For performance
reasons it has to run as root and thus has the ability to crash the
system. You can't simply allow non-root to control its configuration:
this can create an easy DoS.
That said, a console user[1] can pass an arbitrary X parameter to the X
server, including the path to an alternative config file.
[1] The default configuration is that only root can run X. A local
console user can also run it through Xwrapper. On my system I have
/etc/X11/Xwrapper.config in which:
allowed_users=console
nice_value=-10
I don't know if this file is Debian-specific.
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