{"id":54,"date":"2005-08-21T09:06:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-21T14:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/?p=54"},"modified":"2005-08-21T09:06:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-21T14:06:00","slug":"multiple-x-servers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/?p=54","title":{"rendered":"Multiple X Servers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For users sharing a computer, it&#8217;s nice to allow two people to be logged in to their X desktop at the same time.  You can change to the first session with Ctrl-Alt-F7 and the second with Ctrl-Alt-F8.  I had this set up in Red Hat 9 but the upgrade to Fedora Core disabled it.  The setting is in file <code>\/etc\/X11\/gdm\/gdm.conf<\/code>.  The upgrade renamed this file <code>gdm.conf.rpmsave<\/code> and created a new one with default settings.  All you have to do is find the <code>[servers]<\/code> section and uncomment the line <br \/><code># 1=Standard<\/code><br \/>  Then kick GDM (as root) with <br \/><code>kill -USR1 `cat \/var\/run\/gdm.pid`<\/code><br \/>After you log out, GDM will restart with two sessions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For users sharing a computer, it&#8217;s nice to allow two people to be logged in to their X desktop at the same time. You can change to the first session with Ctrl-Alt-F7 and the second with Ctrl-Alt-F8. I had this set up in Red Hat 9 but the upgrade to Fedora Core disabled it. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}