You've got me dead to rights on the 3rd one, but you don't seem to understand 1 & 2. With VNC, I have to login, start the VNC Viewer, and do all my work inside of that VNC window.
Besides that, to have persistant VNC connections, you must dedicate a port per user in the persistant mode. It has a second mode that allows for the 'Normal' X behavior. I.E. You connect, see the XDM prompt, and login. Then your session is closed when you disconnect. If that doesn't illustrate my point well enough, you'd be best off trying out VNC (very simple) and you'll understand the benefits and drawbacks of it's design (drawbacks I've mentioned relating to X). --- Dr Andrew C Aitchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Ryan Cooley wrote: > > > I have three quick suggestions for future XFree86 features (All > > Related). > > > > 1. Allow the user to have a persistant or non-persistant desktop. > I.E. > > The user can login, run some applications, logout, let other users > > login on the same machine, and when the user logs in again, all his > > applications will not have stopped running. This could be done as > a > > log-out option (Persistant/Normal Exit) or selectivly (an "xnohup" > > application for instance). This has been one of the advantages of > VNC > > for some time, however, VNC is not much use locally. > > > > 2. Have some standard way of tranfering windows from one session > to > > another. Now, I start some apps on my home system remotely, and > have > > to use the VNC viewer to use those running apps even when I'm on > the > > same machine. > > Why should we reinvent the wheel ? > Although I haven't used it, I believe that VNC is a good solution > to this problem. > > > 3. Have multiple GUIs runing on one machine. This way, multiple > users > > can be logged in, and switched between with Ctrl+Alt+F*. This > feature > > is really not needed much if #1 is implimented. > > With these two lines: > :0 local /usr/X11R6-v4/bin/X > :1 local /usr/X11R6-v4/bin/X :1 > in my /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers file I get two GUI logins, on > Ctrl+Alt+F7 and Ctrl+Alt+F8. > I guess that kdm and gdm will have similar magic. > > Running multiple instances of X on one card is known to have > problems on some cards - I810 for instance. > > -- > Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
