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I tend to have multiple users logged in (usually one for me, and one for my parents) and I have it setup that I can use gdmflexiserver so my parents can login and have X Server running on display :1, while my account is running on display :0, but for some reason gdmflexiserver either refuses to start, or displays an error message about the XServer not being setup properly...here is my XF86-Config file:
Quote:
# XF86Config-4 (XFree86 X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the XF86Config-4 manual page.
# (Type "man XF86Config-4" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xfree86 package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xfree86
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following commands as root:
#
# cp /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.custom
# md5sum /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 >/var/lib/xfree86/XF86Config-4.md5sum
# dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
Section "Files"
FontPath "unix/:7100" # local font server
# if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
EndSection
I have noticed that a lot of programs are refusing to run at times (like right now, gedit, kedit, gdmflexiserver)...does anyone know why this is happening? (I haven't installed anything, or done anything to my configuration files in quite a while)
go to /etc/gdm and look at gdm.conf---towards the bottom is a section on servers. If one server is enabled, you'll see "Standard=0". If you add "Standard=1", you'll boot up with 2 servers---etc.
On Ubuntu 5.10 (Gnome 2.12), there's a menu command that does this---"login screen setup"
I changed the gdm.conf file, and restarted the X server, and still doesn't work....btw, it's not "Standard=0" it's "0=Standard" (..well, not now anyways)
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