This is an excellent idea of why the weekly "how to ask questions" message suggests changing the Subject: line to match changes in topic. I have been deleting this thread, and only by chance did I stumble on this message before deleting it.
On Wednesday, 23 February 2005 at 21:05:30 -0600, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > markzero wrote: > >>>> Is it possible to install multiple X servers on the same machine so that >>>> one can fire up whichever one strikes one's fancy at a given time? >>> >>> I don't see why not, although it'd probably be more common to >>> simply kill one wm session and start another to save resources. >>> Maybe it's possible. I don't know if, since you've just one >>> DISPLAY (in theory, anyhow) you would configure it. >>> >>> Hmm, just tested. No can do, because just one DISPLAY. Maybe some >>> X guru has a solution. GNOME on ttyv1, fluxbox on ttyv2, term on ttyv3 >>> etc., etc.... Would be pretty cool. >> >> This is certainly possible. You need to start X via something other than >> startx as you must manually set DISPLAY vars. I have run two X servers on >> my machine many times - one running a local desktop environment and the >> other running a WM from a remote box over SSH (for no particular reason >> other than that it's fun). > > I figured there was a way. Most times there is. I was thinking > two Xservers, one monitor. CTL-ALT-F2 is Desktop B, CTL-ALT-F3 > is desktop C, etc. How 'bout that? Well, the terminology is "server", not "desktop". But yes, that can work. > Of course, I really have no idea *why*, either; but it does at least > sound "fun". Been there, done that, wrote a diary entry: http://www.lemis.com/grog/diary-dec2002.html#7 . The secret is to specify a different server number for each server. In the example in the diary entry, I had different window managers running on each of three servers. The scripts are in the diary entry. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers.
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