Bug 76339 - gdmsetup missing configuration option for multiple X servers
Summary: gdmsetup missing configuration option for multiple X servers
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: gdm
Version: 8.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Havoc Pennington
QA Contact: Mike McLean
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-10-20 11:32 UTC by darkeye
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:47 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Last Closed: 2003-01-13 02:34:39 UTC
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Description darkeye 2002-10-20 11:32:47 UTC 
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020827

Description of problem:
when running gdmsetup, it is not possibly to specify the number of X servers
started.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run gdmsetup
2. try to specify multiple X servers
3.
	

Actual Results:  can't find configuration option

Expected Results:  the ability to specify multiple X servers

Additional info:

this configuration option was there in the graphical gdm setup utility in RedHat
7.x. why remove it?

in general: why have a less powerful graphical setup frontend then the
configuration file allows? this is the exact notion people dislike graphical
"user friendly" applications: it denies access to the possibilities of the system.

of course one can set multiple servers by editing /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf, but
then what use is there to have a graphical setup tool?
Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2002-11-04 21:05:07 UTC 
This should also be filed on bugzilla.gnome.org (and comments added to each 
bug cross-referencing the other bug)
Comment 2 Havoc Pennington 2003-01-13 02:34:39 UTC 
Upstream as http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103271
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