"Matthew D. Fuller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 12:43:42AM +0100 I heard the voice of > Bj?rn Lindberg, and lo! it spake thus: > > > > How do you do this (starting up another X server)? Do you have to have > > a separate display? I have sometimes wanted to be able to start up a > > second X server connected to a different virtual console (in Linux, X > > defaults to using the 7th console), but I could never find out how to > > do it. > > X normally grabs the first available console. Generally, the simplest > thing to do is something like "startx -- :1". However, that'll also grab > your default .xinitrc. There's some arg you can pass that will make it > point xinit somewhere else; I just craft up special "~/mystartx.1" and > such.
Thank you! I just learned to new things -- firstly, that I can run several X servers on the same box, and secondly, that I can run different window managers without logging out in between simply by killing the old one and starting a new. I feel a little bit embarassed that I didn't know either of this. Both of these undeniably makes it easier to try out and experiment with window managers. Bj�rn
