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    XDMCP dual X sessions at boot.

    Hello, all.

    New to the forums and am very impressed so far. Quite the community. :P

    Anyhow, to state my question...

    Does anyone know what I need to edit in order to have two simultaneous X sessions started at boot on different TTYs?

    Explanation:
    At work we have very few thick clients. Most users log into a separate server running xdmcp via an automated boot process that puts them into TTY8 by default with the xdmcp login interface.

    The machine I'm configuring as a thick client is fine to boot into KDE via GDM/KDM/etc... by default. However, I would like to be able to switch between the thick and thin by means of CTRL+ALT+F7 and CTRL+ALT+F8.

    I've played around quite a bit with the /etc/event.d files but it seems anything I add automatically defaults to TTYX at boot and prompts for the remote system login as opposed to going into the local X session by default. The remote session also dies after a certain period of time (About 10 minutes) and I need it to remain open indefinitely.

    Any thoughts?

    Regards,
    Janky Jay, III
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    Re: XDMCP dual X sessions at boot.

    I am not familiar with the /etc/event.d files and google hits were not enlightening... I checked /etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc but that specifies only tty1-6, so no good.

    Having said that, my guess would be to look at files which contain the string tty7.

    I reckon xorg would be the next thing to be called up, so definitely worth a look.

    Just a few suggestions, sorry I cannot be of more help.
    Once your problem is solved please mark the topic of the first post as SOLVED so others know and can benefit from your experience! / FAQ
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      Re: XDMCP dual X sessions at boot.

      Well, the problem here is that I don't want to use login manager to do this. I just want the TTY to to connect to the remote machine at boot. I don't want to choose between remote and local sessions. This was easily done before using /etc/inittab but, of course, this has moved and the closest thing to it seems to be /etc/event.d which I know next to nothing about. I was mainly just curious if anyone else has done something similar with the /etc/event.d files.

      Thanks for the reply. I do appreciate the help.

      Regards!
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