Locking Virtual Desktops

[Anshul]

On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Rick Wagner wrote:

> 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


i tried all that what u've written but its not working on my comp.
after starting Xserver(which corresponds to F7) when i did cntl+alt+F8 
nothing new happened...it was as if
:1 local reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X :1 vt08
had no effect.
Any suggestions.

Regards,
Anshul





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