[ale] X resolution changing

Wandered Inn esoteric at denali.atlnet.com
Mon Jul 16 17:09:12 EDT 2001


Casey Allen Shobe wrote:

> I know that there is some way to start two instances of X - so perhaps this
> would be one possible way? 

I don't know if this is what you're looking to do, but I had done this a
while back and just figured out how to do it again.  Right now I've got
two different X instances running.  The first I started from kdm.  I
then went to an available virtual terminal, logged in and typed: 'starx
-- :1'  Now cntl-alt-f7 gets me to my original session, cntl-alt-f8 gets
me to my second.  First one is gnome/enlightenment, second one is kde. 
Cool.

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