måndag 23 februari 2004 23:12 skrev Terje J. Hanssen:
What is the vt_number and what is the purpose of it? Is it SuSE/KDE thing, as I haven't seen it used for Unix/Linux/X in general? I think I read some place that vt07 is used for the standard console X display :0 but cannot find where it was. That is, is there a relationship between the X :display_sequence_number and the vt_number? Is two vt_numbers used for each X server as you use X :2 - vt09 and X :3 - vt11? What is your third CDE session, eg X :4 - vt13 or ?
Virtual consoles, is a thingie that dates back to Xenix. Linux specifies the first 6 consoles, virtual ttys and you can switch between these on your console with Alt-F1-F6, just as you did with Xenix. However, XFree implementation requires a bound terminal for Input, and it is bound to the first "free" virtual terminal, which is no. 7, and then the next X will be 8, and so forth.
How do you terminate each of the X server instances after log out from Solaris/CDE sessions, so that the unused X servers don't consume hardware ressources when you eg. work further in Linux locally?
My test:
I have tried the above syntax from the command line and got it to work a part of the way. I got the CDE login screen and could log in. But the fonts was not good and the geometry of the CDE login screen was too narrow and high. Switching back to SJDS again I saw a lot of font errors, not surprisingly.
I put in extra syntax to apply CDE fonts from the Solaris font server as follows (CDE_host defined in /etc/hosts):
X :2 -fp tcp/CDE_host:7100 -query CDE_host
This solved the font errors, gave good CDE fonts and corrected the geometry of the CDE login screen.
However, one error message still arrieves in the terminal window: (EE) Failed to load module "glx" (module does not exist) Dows somebody knows what this is and what it due too?
Using Gnome/Linux fonts remotely:
The above syntax works for using the Solaris font server on Linux. But is the syntax identical the opposite way, to use Gnome fonts and Linux fontserver when remote login from the Solaris side?
I myself am not happy with the until now bad and grainy Gnome fonts on the Solaris/X screen. Is this due to no support for font antialiasing in the Solaris 7 Xserver, or are there other options (color depth, screen resolution, changing font types or others) when starting the Solaris Xserver and/or querying the GDM/Linux that can be tried to better the font experience?
Terje J. Hanssen