[multiseat] hard freeze when running "X -arguments... :1"

Tomasz Chmielewski mangoo at wpkg.org
Sun Jan 4 22:43:04 PST 2009


Tiago Vignatti schrieb:

>> So far I have one problem: my computer freezes whenever I want to use 
>> GDM as a desktop manager. On the other hand, everything works fine if 
>> I use KDM.
>>
>> Closer investigation turned up that the freeze does not really depend 
>> on the desktop manager, but on the order X servers are started.
> 
> Some days ago I answered to you in what mess we're living (search for 
> <494EE380.1040506 at c3sl.ufpr.br>). You won't be able to initialize more 
> than one X server so soon.

"Not being able to initialize more than one X server" doesn't sound like 
a right direction of development to me, or?


> That's the reason why people is still using 
> nested servers (like Xephyr) under a multi-head Xorg to deploy the 
> multiseat model.


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Tomasz Chmielewski
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