On 10/22/08, Royce Souther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You could just run a second X session on DISPLAY :1 and have it set to query > the other system. Switching between systems would be as simple as > Ctrl+Alt+F7 or Ctrl+Alt+F8. You would not have GL or 3D support on the > system at DISPLAY :1 > > To do this you need an /etc/init.d/ script that starts up after your > [G|K|X]DM because these DM's try to start on :0 by default. I thing the > command is something like /usr/X11R6/bin/X :1 -query <other server IP> where > <other server IP> is the IP address of the other server. The other server > needs XDMCP turned on. I did this with XFree86 but have not tried with Xorg, > it should be very similar.
Thanks Royce! I was looking for something the syntax for running a second X session a while ago, but it quickly became apparent that I did not know what the heck to search for. I was wanting to run one X session as my user, and the other as my girlfriends, so her sessions (facebook, gmail, etc.) would not collide with mine. My next step is figuring out how to get the .xinitrc script interpreted properly. The only way I was able to get a window manager running was to run an xterm with -display :1, and then in that xterm run the window manager. That works, of course, but is a little kludgey. -Mark C. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
