Bug 76339 – gdmsetup missing configuration option for multiple X servers

Bug 76339 - gdmsetup missing configuration option for multiple X servers

Summary:	gdmsetup missing configuration option for multiple X servers

Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	gdm (Show other bugs)
Sub Component:
Version:	8.0
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity low
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Assigned To:	Havoc Pennington
QA Contact:	Mike McLean
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Keywords:	MoveUpstream, Triaged

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Reported:	2002-10-20 07:32 EDT by darkeye
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:47 EDT (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Last Closed:	2003-01-12 21:34:39 EST
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Description darkeye 2002-10-20 07:32:47 EDT

From Bugzilla Helper:
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 16:05:07 EST

This should also be filed on bugzilla.gnome.org (and comments added to each 
bug cross-referencing the other bug)

Comment 2 Havoc Pennington 2003-01-12 21:34:39 EST

Upstream as http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103271

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