<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Creating symbolic links</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="XFree Local Multi-User HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Setting up the X servers" HREF="x_servers.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Installing and Configuring XFree-PrefBusID" HREF="mod_xserver_prefbusid.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Using independent keyboards with XFree" HREF="ind_keyboards.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="sect1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >XFree Local Multi-User HOWTO</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="mod_xserver_prefbusid.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >Chapter 4. Setting up the X servers</TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="ind_keyboards.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="sect1" ><H1 CLASS="sect1" ><A NAME="sym_links" ></A >4.3. Creating symbolic links</H1 ><P >The symbolic links are needed for properly starting several XFree instances, as well for properly exiting an X session. This applies for both starting X from console and the automatic starting of X by the display manager (kdm, gdm, xdm).</P ><P >You need to create as many symbolic links to the modified X server binary (or to the original X server in case you do not need a modified one), as the number of your video cards/X sessions.</P ><P >I assume that you will have to use a modified X server, but in case you do not need it, use the following commands to create the links to your original X server:</P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><FONT COLOR="#000000" ><PRE CLASS="screen" > cd /usr/X11R6/bin/ ln -s XFree[modified] X0 ln -s XFree[modified] X1 ln -s XFree[modified] X2 </PRE ></FONT ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P >In case you use the provided rpm packages, you'll only need this if you want more than 4 parallel running X servers/X sessions, as the rpm creates 4 symbolic links to the X server binary. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="mod_xserver_prefbusid.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ind_keyboards.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Installing and Configuring XFree-PrefBusID</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x_servers.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Using independent keyboards with XFree</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >