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Ok, that was quick, here is his reply:<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373" SIZE="3"><TT>> I hope you will be so kind as to shed some light on this for us :-)<BR>
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<FONT SIZE="3">oh, no, i explained this 20 times at various places already ... *whine*<BR>
minimalistic instructions are in the README in the kdm source dir.<BR>
more verbose instructions are at </FONT><A HREF="http://ktown.kde.org/~nolden/kde/README"><FONT SIZE="3">http://ktown.kde.org/~nolden/kde/README</FONT></A><BR>
<FONT SIZE="3">(section 6.1.4. The XP-Multi-Session feature).<BR>
regarding the history ... this feature existed in a very rudimentary<BR>
form in kde 3.0 alredy. it's in much better shape in suse's kde 3.0.x<BR>
packages. it is fully present in kde 3.1, but it's still not really<BR>
ready, so it's not official yet. maybe in 3.2 ...<BR>
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greetings</TT></FONT>
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Looking up the section he is talking about I found this explanation:<BR>
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6.1.4. The XP-Multi-Session feature
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KDM is also able to provide you a feature that is currently widespread
by Windows XP, the multi-session feature. You were always able to do that
more or less by changing to a console and startx -- :1 or -- :2 to start
a new X-Server on the next vt (vt8 if vt7 is the default for the first
one where your KDM runs on), but not from *within* KDE. This has changed
lately, but you need to add the configuration lines necessary to
/etc/kde3/kdm/Xservers:
# Examples for multiple local X displays:
# :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 vt9 -bpp 16
# :1 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :1 vt10 -bpp 8
:0 local@tty1 /etc/X11/X :0 vt7
:1 local reserve /usr/bin/X11/X :1 vt8
:2 local reserve /usr/bin/X11/X :2 vt9
:3 local reserve /usr/bin/X11/X :3 vt10
the displays :1, :2, :3 are marked as reserve and will be started only if
requested. If those lines are present, you can start a new session login
on the next vt with KDM through either
a) the K Menu - above the "lock screen" entry you will see an entry
"Start new session"
b) when the screen is locked you will see a big button next to the
password input field "Start new session"
This is extremely useful if one computer is shared with your family
members, kids and wife (or husband) alike so you don't have to close
your session but just lock the screen.
As a side note, each newly opened KDM login (and X-server) will consume
the amount of graphics memory required, which is usually
width*height*colordepth.
Also, don't forget any sessions that a lingering in the background when
you shut down the machine.</PRE>
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I tried it and it works!<BR>
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Cheers,<BR>
-Tako<BR>
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PS: Can somebody tell me how to get the system to re-evaluate the Xservers file without rebooting?<BR>
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PS2: The only problem I still have with the system (but I had that before as well) is that switching to a login screen other than the first (:0) always shows an empty screen the first time. I have to switch back to the existing session and than back again to the new one to get a login dialog. Any ideas?<BR>
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On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 18:12, Tako Schotanus wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#737373" SIZE="3"><I>Hmm I did some looking around and found this bug report which seems to be exactly what you talked about:</FONT><BR>
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<A HREF="http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48537"><FONT SIZE="3">http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48537</FONT></A><BR>
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and the patch that actually implements it:</FONT><BR>
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<A HREF="http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=103248620916086&w=2"><FONT SIZE="3">http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=103248620916086&w=2</FONT></A><BR>
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In the page referred to by the first link it clearly states at the end that this is part of the KDE 3.1 release. I've sent an e-mail to the author of the patch asking him if he can explain how it works/how to turn it on, so hopefully I'll be able get some more info to y'all on this very soon.<BR>
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Cheers,<BR>
-Tako<BR>
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On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 16:53, Johnny Ernst Nielsen wrote:
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<PRE>Good day Tako and Rex,
I found a bug report on a KDE-list that states something like this:
"The Start New Session menu item will be available in the K menu if
KDM is allowed to start multiple X sessions."
This was posted late 2002, so it was a feature already in KDE 3.0
However, I have no idea as to how to toggle the feature on and off,
just as I have no idea if it is KDM or X that you should fiddle with.
Anyway, if you look harder than what I did(*), it seems you can "just
turn the feature on".
(*) I didn't bother looking too hard as my distro has it turned on for
me by default.
Best regards :o)
Johnny :o)
Onsdag den 12. marts 2003 15:46 kvad Tako Schotanus:
> Maybe you're running KDM? For KDM it's in /etc/kde/kdm/Xservers
>
> And this is actually the way I have it running right now, but I
> must admit that I would love to see a K->StartNewSession option!
> :-D
>
> Cheers,
> -Tako
>
> On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 13:36, Rex Dieter wrote:
> > FYI, I've never heard-of/seen any K->StartNewSession option,
> > though that may be an option particular to some distribution
> > (redhat certainly doesn't have that feature).
> >
> > On redhat, you can start multiple X servers, by adding them to
> > /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers. Hmm... I just tried that, and couldn't
> > get it to work, though I know I've done it that way in the past.
> >
> > -- Rex
> >
> > On Tuesday 11 March 2003 5:45 pm, Tako Schotanus wrote:
> > > I can't find this option on my KDE 3.1 system (RedHat 8).
> > > Might it be it's not available there (either because of KDE 3.1
> > > or RH8)? Or could somebody tell me where to find the option or
> > > how turn it on?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > -Tako
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