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Brendan Kidwell wrote: > I concur. When I was setting up my desktop at work in the past year... with > a 9 year old Thinkpad as an extra terminal, I quickly conluded (but > neglected to rigorously PROVE) that GNOME gets really pissy really quick if > you try to run two instances on the same host in the same user context. > > My solution was to create a "kidwellb2" user, log in the second terminal as > that, and mount ~kidwellb to ~kidwellb2/mnt/kidwellb via sshfs. (Used sshfs > instead of simple symlink because I wanted to avoid any user and group > onwership/permissions issues.) I'm not sure how to do that. I get the gdm login screen on my laptop screen, I log in, and I get screen 0 on my laptop and screen 1 on my TV (if it's hooked up). I only log in once. I think what you're describing is creating an X session on one computer from another, which isn't what I'm doing. > Incidentally, you mentioned problems running nvidia-settings as non-root and > "sudo" didn't fix it. I noticed the silent failure too (grr...) but it > worked fine for me using sudo. -- I upgraded my this same desktop to Ubuntu > 8.10 on Friday, 28 Nov. Maybe the permissions on my xorg.conf is different than yours. Either way, I have a solution to that problem, anyway. Thanks.
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