On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 22:32 -0600, David L. Anselmi wrote: > For fun I may go figure out what it takes to run gdm on one of my > VCs. > If I get tired of coding, which is a lot more fun than I remember it. You could try typing "gdmflexiserver" On most of my systems it locks the screen and then starts a seperate instance of X and GDM on on VC8.