Sometime just before Thursday 25 April 2002 11:16 pm Timothy Bolz Wrote about:[EUG-LUG:2427] Nifty X tricks Cool... I wonder If I can run x from another partition, from the mandrake8.1 system ( x ran much better in mandrake 8.1... 8.2 is sucking 50% cpu just running x.) and the gimp under 8.2 has been giving me greif with some plugins... , but its still usable atleast...
Jamie : Ok, I got 4 x sessions going at the same time. I got into a virtual term : Ctrl + Alt + F1 , logged in and typed the following : Startx -- :1 : x started up with windowmaker. I was then able to swithch between : windowmaker and gnome (sawfish). Ctrl + Alt + F7 and Ctrl + Alt + F8. I : then tried to test it even further by logging in 2 more terminals and : startx in each one with startx -- :2 and startx -- :3. It worked. I'd : like to get different window managers going at the same time and get a : windows person and say "can windows do this?". : : In one of the Xsessions I had the screensaver running as the background. I : did a "locate screensaver" found the directory they were in cd to that : directory and ran "pyro -root". For some reason gnome did nothing but : windowmaker had the fourth of July going with a window open. This is : another thing windows can't do straight out of the box with a screensaver. : : If anyone else has some cool x tricks share them. I thought others might : like to try this. I wonder how many sessions I could have gone to. I : suspect 6. : : Tim -- for setting/changing your eug-lug mailinglist subscription use this website: http://wWw.RockSolidNetworks.com/eug-lug.html no microsoft products were used to produce this message.
