xdm question

[Craig White]

On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 19:06 -0500, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Craig White wrote:
> 
> > no - just wanting to switch via virtual console <Control><Alt><F1> or
> > <F2>
> 
> I have been planning to set that up for my kids computer.
> 
> Both KDE and GNOME have a feature to switch user. In GNOME, this is 
> provided by the fast-user-switch-applet (Fast User Switching) and 
> gdmflexiserver and gdmXnestchooser. KDE has Switch User option on the K 
> Menu.
> 
> It can use Xnest instead of an additional X server.
> 
> (I hoped to patch xlock to add option for switching user.)
> 
> Here is a way to do it with xdm (and not xnest) in your xdm Xservers file:
> 
> :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X vt7 :0
> :1 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X vt8 :1
> 
> Change the path to X for your system.
> 
> Change vt7 to vt05 or whatever is appropriate for your system.
> 
> Then start X.
> 
> Let me know what more specifically you want to do and I will be glad to 
> help.
> 
>   Jeremy C. Reed
> 
> p.s. I need feedback and reviewers for a X.org book I am co-authoring.
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I don't know enough about X to be of much value for reviewing.

That looks to supply the missing link that I needed as I wasn't
assigning XServers to vt

I won't be able to test until Monday

Thanks

Craig