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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">All, I apologize if this is trivially easy, but I
have yet to find an FM to RT.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Basically, I have 30 servers all running xdm. I
want to build one client machine with 5 monitors but one shared keyboard and
mouse with each monitor attached to a single individual instance of X pointed at
a shared chooser such that when someone sits down at the machine, they can
select any five machines they want and view them all at the same time.
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">I'm starting slow with a machine with two video
cards. I can "xinerama" them just fine, so I know the hardware part of the
puzzle is ok. So I configured my xorg.conf:</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Section "ServerLayout"<br> Identifier
"x0"<br> Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0<br> InputDevice "Mouse0"
"CorePointer"<br> InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"<br>
Option "SingleCard" "true"<br>EndSection</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Section "ServerLayout"<br> Identifier
"x1"<br> Screen 1 "Screen1" 1 0<br> InputDevice "Mouse0"
"CorePointer"<br> InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"<br>
Option "SingleCard" "true"<br>EndSection</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">and if I'm remotely xterm'd in and
run:</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2"># startx -- :0 layout x0 &</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"># startx -- :1 layout x1 &</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">It seems to do what I want... (I wish I could mount
between them, but that comes later) </font><font face="Arial" size="2">however, when
I <ctrl>-<alt>-F# between them, the "non-active" monitor returns to
it's textual mode state. </font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Is there any way I can tell X to always leave each
head in it's active state when switching VTs so that I can see both servers at
the same time? I can provide more specifics if needed.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Thanks.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">-R</font></div>
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