Powerbook Setup

[John Baldwin]

On Tuesday 19 October 2004 11:43 pm, David Scheidt wrote:
> On Oct 19, 2004, at 2:20 PM, John Baldwin wrote:
> > desktop use.)  Oh, and "switch user" from panther.  My wife and I
> > often share
> > the same FreeBSD + KDE machine at home and when I'm not using a laptop
> > we
> > have to keep logging out to let the other person use the machine.
> > Having
> > switch user for KDE would be very, very nice.
>
> Not as nice as switching users, but it's possible to run more than one
> instance of an X server on the machine.
>
>   startx -- :1
>
> will start X on the next available vt, and call it display :1.  I'm
> sure xdm can be made to run on it with not much effort, if you feel the
> need for that.
>
> Hitting ctrl-alt-fn is not quite as nice as picking a name out of a
> menu, and there are some resources wasted.  For two people, on a modern
> machine, it should be quite fine.

I'm aware of that (we are using kdm, fwiw), but using multiple displays is a 
hack and not as intuitive as switch user.  It also doesn't scale well.  For N 
people you have to have N kdm instances running.

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