[mythtv-users] Multiple Displays on the same Machine

[Jean-Rene Cormier]

On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 02:39, Steve Wilton wrote:
> On June 2, 2004 23:27, Thomas M Hughes wrote:
> 
> > you move the mouse to the right, it moves onto the frontend screen), I
> > want them to be separate displays.  Inputs for the desktop stay on the
> > desktop, while inputs for the frontend (ideally, a remote control with
> > lirc) remain on the front end.  I'm pretty sure this part shouldn't be a
> > problem, as the X11 config will just involve setting up two different
> > screens, one for the desktop and one for the television, and not placing
> > one to the right of the other.
> >
> > Here is where I'm slightly stumped.  I would like the desktop machine to
> > require a login and password, while I would like the frontend to
> > automatically log in and startup mythfrontend.  I can figure out how to
> > do one or the other, but apparently not both with gdm.  Either both will
> > require a login and password, or neither will, and both will log in to
> > the mythfrontend.  Any idea how to solve this problem?
> 
> Maybe run two separate X window instances each with their own config file? No 
> idea how to do this though, and a lot of overhead.

Take a look at this HOWTO, it should give you an idea on how to set it
up. Though I think  you'll need to recompile quite some stuff.

http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/multiuser/


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Jean-Rene Cormier <jean-rene.cormier at cipanb.ca>