[ale] running two X servers

[Geoffrey]

There was a question at the ALE NW meeting last night regarding running 
two X servers on one box.  I just verified my own suggestion and thought 
I'd put it type.

I actually did it two different ways as follows:

First approach:

at a virtual console, with no X running (X, gdm, xdm, kdm..) I ran:

startx

I get X up and running. I then switch to a virtual console
(ctrl-alt F1).

I ran:

startx -- :1

I'm now in a second X session.  If I hit (cntrl-alt-F7) I'm back to my 
original X session.  cntrl-alt-F8 takes me to the second session.

I did this as two different users, one being root.  I also did it with 
the same non-root user.


Second approach:

I fired up gdm which is the way my box normally comes up.  I logged in 
as my normal user, esoteric.  I then switched to a virtual console 
(cntrl-alt-F1), logged in as root and issued:

startx -- :1

Again, same thing, I'm now in an X session as root.  I can switch to my 
normal user via (cntrl-alt-f7) and back to the root X session with 
(cntrl-alt-f8)


So, of course this got me thinking, which is a dangerous thing for me, 
most of the time.  So, with two X sessions running, one on accessible 
via (cntrl-alt-f7) and another via (cntrl-alt-f8) what did I do?  You 
guess it, I went to a virtual console and executed:

startx -- :2

That's right now I have three X sessions running, the third one 
accessible via (cntrl-alt-f9).

Have fun folks, I'll stop there, although I've got F10-F12 left. :)


-- 
Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net

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Think about it...

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