open up "/etc/X11/xdm/Xservers"

on the last line, you should see this:

:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X

add the following after that:

:1 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :1
:2 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :2
:3 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :3
etc, etc, etc....

jspinti at dart.dartdist.com wrote:

>Over the weekend I was reading all kinds of reviews about Win XP 
>and its ability to allow multiple logins.  This was advertised as
>some great advance...the other session was not suspended or closed, 
>but backgrounded until the person logged back in.  The person who 
>was currently the foreground session had priority, etc.  
>
>Now, here's the point.  I have 5 people who use my machines at 
>home and Linux has 6 consoles.  I run Mandrake 8.0 and usually 
>KDE (that's part of the rub, more than one gui).  I know it is 
>possible to run multiple X sessions on a single machine and 
>bounce between them with ctl-alt-F7 - F12.  How can I set up 
>each user's environment so that they would default to a 
>different X session from anyone else?  Then I would have the 
>same "new" functionality that XP claims it is innovating, 
>but would not need to run out and upgrade all my machines' 
>memory and processors and pay the big $$$ for XP, etc...  
>
>This could be a cool hack to publish somewhere in some HOW-TO, 
>unless it already exists??
>
>Thanks,
>
>James Spinti
>jspinti at dartdist.com
>952-368-3278 x396
>fax 952-368-3255 
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