Locking Virtual Desktops

[Rick Wagner]

On Wednesday 09 February 2005 11:16 am, Anshul wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Kevin Krammer wrote:
...
> > KDE3 (I think at least from 3.1 on) has an option in its unlock dialog to
> > allow starting new login on another X server.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Kevin
>
> can you please give some details on how to run two X-servers at the same
> time?

You should have a file /etc/kde/kdm/Xservers symbolically linked 
to /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers.  This file should have one entry defining 
display :0, which is your current default virtual screen.  Add additional 
lines; I have in mine:

 :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X
 :1 local reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X :1 vt08

The :0 is the original entry.  The :1 is one I added for a second display.  
The "reserve" parameter defines an "on demand" startup; locking a KDE screen 
will offer to start a new session.  If you remove the reserve, then the 
second display will start with KDM.  The "vt08" tells says it will be on 
virtual terminal 8 (i.e. ctrl-alt-F8).  I'm not sure why the second ":1", it 
was in the example I was given, and just worked.  You can define more, 
i.e. :2 on vt09, etc.

You probably need to restart KDM to get the change noticed.

HTH,
 --rick
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