Multiple X displays no longer works

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 05:01:20PM -0800, Susan Macchia wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I recently upgraded to RH 8.0.  Prior to that I had RH 7.2, 7.3 (Suse, Caldera,
>etc). 
>
>I've always run with multiple X displays enabled by adding the following to
>/etc/X11/xdm/Xservers:
>
>:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 vt07
>:1 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :1 vt08
>
>It has always worked until RH 8.0.
>
>I'm using the standard (gdm?) login for Redhat 8.0 and have tried having an
>Xserver in /etc/X11/gdm with the same lines - to no avail.
>
>I have googled and redhat'ed till I'm blue in the face and can find nothing
>that tells me how to do this or what has changed.  So, does anyone here have a
>clue?

The ?dm startup tends to move around depending on which GUI login
program is running (xdm, kdm, ...).  These login managers tend to
use the standard xdm files, but may put them in strange places.

The ``locate'' command is your friend for things like this
(although many new Linux distributions are protecting us from
ourselves by not including it in the standard installations):
	locate Xservers

Bill
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