On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 07:21:51AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > Can XFree86, with any known graphics hardware configuration, handle two > separate users running two separate XFree desktops on the same PC? These two > users would log in separately, but share machine resources. ssh is not an > option. Certainly. You can run multiple copies of X, or multiple xdm's, on separate virtual consoles, and use Ctrl-Atl-7, Ctrl-Alt-8, etc, to switch between them. > The best solution, in my mind, would be if a single dual-head graphics > adapter could be used such that one user is on one monitor and the other > user is on a second monitor. *Maybe*. I'm not real familiar with multi-head. I suspect not, but I might be wrong. > Less compelling, but still acceptable in my specific case, would be a > second graphics adapter, PCI-based, that displayed the second desktop. This might be easier. > Is anything like this possible? Can the two monitors be considered as two > completely separate displays by XFree? Um, where were you planning to plug in a second keyboard? :-) Look into DOSVNC and a spare 386. http://c0w.inode.at/mjy/dosvnc.html (warning: political comment on page) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth jra@xxxxxxxxxxx Member of the Technical Staff Baylink RFC 2100 The Suncoast Freenet The Things I Think Tampa Bay, Florida http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 OS X: Because making Unix user-friendly was easier than debugging Windows -- Simon Slavin, on a.f.c _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
