hi I just wanted to share this success with all the other people there who might need to use two xservers . Whew , this tool long, but the taste of success is great ! Read on .... This is what I needed to do -- 1) I wanted to work on Linux as the desktop environment :-) 2) I wanted to run the xserver on the solaris server to carry out the work as per my project. The problem was that once I went into GNOME , how to access the screens for Solaris ? one way is that you say startx -display "server_name" however this is an either-or-situation. Either I could run gnome or the solaris GUI. I posted a query in this list as to how to get around this situation & I got an answer "Xnext". But nothing more. Thanks for the tip though. However , since no one knew much , I was left on my own to get this working . At first I used "xhost + telnet to server xterm & " to get this done, opening many windows. However, I have now got the solution to this problem. this is how you do it. open a terminal window and run X :2 -display "server_name" X -> you are telling a X server to start 2 -> the server session. By default GNOME ( or KDE) would be your session 1 -display -> option for your display. You will have to give your server name here - without the quotes . Presto ! you have an Xserver running on console F8 ! to shift between the two servers use ctrl+alt+f7 ( for the GNOME environment) and ctrl+alt+f8 for the other server. If you use Xnest, you will get a window where the Xserver will be running. I hope this will help all the people who need to do something similar to what I am doing . I don't know how to take a snapshot , otherwise I could have sent the image also of all this activity going on . regards vibhu.. ---------------------------------------------- An alpha version of a web based tool to manage your subscription with this mailing list is at http://lists.linux-india.org/cgi-bin/mj_wwwusr
