Running GDM on Two Consoles

Karl Goetz kamping_kaiser at internode.on.net
Sat Apr 1 02:59:05 UTC 2006


Ben Edwards wrote:
> I have one of my PC set up so GDM auto loges in and starts mythtv.  Is
> there a way of starting GDM on another console so I can log in as
> another user at the same time.
> 
> Regards,
> Ben 
> 
> 
to enable logging in on 2 VC's edit /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf-custom .
its a file with no comments, just to be extra helpfull.

In the [servers] block, add the line
1=Standard

save adn exit.
Auto logins i havent tried, but i'm sure its not so hard
kk

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