[ale] running two X servers

[Geoffrey]

Well, I got up to 6 sessions running, and ran out of f?? keys.  About 
1/2 my  .5 gig of memory was used.  The video card is a 32 mb card.

James P. Kinney III wrote:
> So, how much RAM do you have left?
> 
> On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 22:09, Geoffrey wrote:
> 
>>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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