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Trejkaz
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 Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 11:50 am Post subject: KDM user switching gone in KDE 3.4? |
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Something which was working fine in KDE 3.3 seems to be giving me grief in KDE 3.4.
Here's my config for KDM:
| Code: | [49] trejkaz@raven:~> cat /usr/kde/3.4/share/config/kdm/Xservers
# Xservers - local X-server list
:0 local@tty1 /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp -dpi 100
:1 local@tty2 reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp -dpi 100 :1
:2 local@tty3 reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp -dpi 100 :2
#:3 local@tty4 reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp :3
#:4 local@tty5 reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp :4
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It looks fine to my naked eye, but is there an error in there? Or is there some other configuration I should be looking at? |
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tomvollerthun
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| Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 12:01 pm Post subject: |
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It is still there, only the menu-entry has moved:
There should be something like "change session" in the menu, with a sub-menu containing all running sessions (even the console session of root in alt-crtl-1 ;), the possibility to switch to a running session (although I could not switch to a console session) and to create a new session, i.e. opening a new x-screen and showing your login manager.
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Trejkaz
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| Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 12:18 pm Post subject: |
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Problem is, that menu only shows the session I'm already logged in on.
And when I lock the screen, the menu there has the same issue. |
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tomvollerthun
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| Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 12:27 pm Post subject: |
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Well, I do not have this problem. On my box, the menu contains the possibility to create a new session, too.
So it seems like there's something wrong with your setup.
Perhaps it is KDM itself?
It has been upgraded: did you edit the correct files (i.e. the new ones)?
Is the *new* KDM started as login manager (and not the old one)?
Try to startx -- :2 from a terminal (not a terminal emulation like konsole) and see, if a new X11 pops up
(you can swith with alt-ctrl-F1 from an X-session to the first terminal, and with alt-F7 from the terminal-session to an X running in terminal 7.)
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Trejkaz
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| Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 1:38 pm Post subject: |
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I removed KDE 3.3 entirely so there can't be any mistake about which one's running. /usr/kde/3.3 doesn't actually exist anymore.
So unless the Xservers file is not /usr/kde/3.4/share/config/kdm/Xservers...
startx -- :2 works... confusing, as I thought it was supposed to be reserved by KDM. Maybe this is another symptom of the problem. |
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tomvollerthun
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| Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 2:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Trejkaz wrote: | | So unless the Xservers file is not /usr/kde/3.4/share/config/kdm/Xservers... |
The exact location of that file can be configured in /usr/kde/3.4/share/config/kdm/kdmrc but I think by default it is the Xserver file in that very directory. So it is very possible that you edited the correct file. Please check it anyway, just to be sure ;) (Damn, these graphical smileys look too ugly !!)
| Trejkaz wrote: | | startx -- :2 works... confusing, as I thought it was supposed to be reserved by KDM. Maybe this is another symptom of the problem. |
Well, the reservation goes only so far as to prepare KDM to be able to open another session. As long as the session is unoccupied, it can be used by everyone who's privileged enough to do so. Might be KDM, that delegates to a user's X-session, but it might as well be a user starting an X-session from somewhere else.
So the multi-session x11 works, which means you don't have to recompile x11. That's fine.
My last resort is for you to check if the Xservers-file you edited is the one that's named in /usr/kde/3.4/share/config/kdm/kdmrc .
If that doesn't help, I am not the one to solve your problem, I'm afraid.
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Trejkaz
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| Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 10:10 pm Post subject: |
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Looks like I'm out of luck for now.
The worst thing about bugs like this is that there's no point posting a bug record as the devs won't be able to reproduce it at all.  |
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