Locking Virtual Desktops

[Anshul]

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Anshul wrote:

> 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



One more thing is that i made changes in /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers
because i donot have the other file.


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