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Re: Choosing the layout of server X in GDM



On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 14:14, Vincent Bernat wrote:
> OoO Peu avant le début de l'après-midi du dimanche 17 août 2003, vers
> 13:29, Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org> disait:
> 
> >> I have written a snippet of code which could be useful to some of
> >> you. It aims at allowing to choose a server layout at GDM prompt.
> 
> > Nice; you could also have gdm start several servers, one for each
> > layout, and VT switch to the one you want to use?
> 
> I suppose this works too, but with more than two layouts, it could eat
> too much memory ? (even if most of it is shared).

I wouldn't expect this to be a problem - the non-shared parts of the
unused servers should get swapped out?


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