Running GDM on Two Consoles

Karl Goetz kamping_kaiser at internode.on.net
Sat Apr 1 09:03:05 UTC 2006


Peter Garrett wrote:
> On Sat, 01 Apr 2006 13:29:05 +1030
> Karl Goetz <kamping_kaiser at internode.on.net> wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> Hmm. On Breezy:
> 
> $ less /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf-custom
> /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf-custom: No such file or directory
> 
> So not just "no comments" but even "no file" ...
> 
> I know, it's April Fool's day ! That must be the problem!
> 
> ;-)
> 
i'm on dapper, so that must be it ;)
/etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf is what your after then...
(thats what it is on debian sarge fwiw... and on reflection breezy as
well...)

sorry OP,
kk

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Karl Goetz
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