Re: xdm on ttys7 and ttys8
On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Shao Ying Zhang wrote:
> Hi all,
> in my inittab, I have six ttys running in run level 5. And the xdm
> is on ttys 7.
>
> Could anyone tell me how to get the xdm running in ttys8 as well??
>
> In this case, I can just press ctrl-alt-f8 to change to my second
> xdm??
>
That involves a little fiddling with xdm's config file:
/etc/X11/xdm/Xservers
add a line like such:
:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 vt7 <--- existing line
:1 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :1 vt8 <--- new line
that should work.
Michael Beattie (mickyb@es.co.nz)
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