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Linux Desktop Hacks
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Linux Desktop Hacks

by Nicholas Petreley, Jono Bacon
March 2005
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
342 pages
15h 55m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 3, Login Managers
#18 Double Your GDM (GNOME) Login Screens
HACK
If you want to have three graphical login screens, simply edit the Xservers
file again and change the third line the same way you changed the second.
You can get to the third graphical login screen by pressing Ctrl-Alt-F9. The-
oretically, you can have several more graphical login screens. The default
keyboard settings provide key combinations that will work for up to 22 con-
soles, including both text and graphical logins, but Linux distributions
rarely enable more than 11 virtual consoles, some as few as nine.
HACK
#18
Double Your GDM (GNOME) Login Screens Hack #18
Set up the graphical login manager GDM to run on two different screens
when you boot the computer.
This hack will set up GDM to run on two different screens when you boot
the computer. One user can log in from one login screen, and if another user
wants to jump in and do some work, he can log in from the second login
screen. You’re not limited to two login screens, but the more sessions you
run, the more processor power and memory are needed. Performance
shouldn’t be a problem on most modern systems, however.
If your Linux distribution runs GNOME by default rather than KDE, or if
you’re using Fedora, you’re probably also using the GDM graphical login
manager to log in. This might be true even if you don’t use GNOME as your
desktop, because distributions that favor ...
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