[ale] running two X servers

[Geoffrey]

James P. Kinney III wrote:
> AWESOME!!!  This should be carefully written up and submitted to the
> linuxdocs people. A mini-howto would be fantastic. Great work, Jason!

Absolutely.

> 
> On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 22:28, Jason Day wrote:
> 
>>On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 10:09:01PM -0500, 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've been doing this for a while now to run games in wine.  I kept
>>having various problems when running games in wine: like moving the
>>mouse to the edge of the screen and inadvertantly switching to a
>>different virtual desktop.  I also discovered that wine tends to work
>>better if you set your X resolution to 640x480 or 800x600 and 16-bit
>>color.  So I did a bit of research and figured out how to start a
>>different X server.
>>
>>First, I added this to my XF86Config file:
>>
>>Section "Screen"
>>        Identifier      "wine"
>>        Device          "Generic Video Card"
>>        Monitor         "Generic Monitor"
>>        DefaultDepth    16
>>
>>        Subsection "Display"
>>                Depth 16
>>                Modes "800x600" "640x480"
>>        EndSubsection
>>        Subsection "Display"
>>                Depth 24
>>                Modes "800x600" "640x480"
>>        EndSubsection
>>EndSection
>>
>>Then, for each game, I create a gnome panel launcher with this for a
>>command:
>>  xinit /home/jday/bin/game.sh -- :1 -screen wine
>>
>>The game.sh is a shell script customized for the game I want to play.
>>For example, I use this script to launch NeverWinter Nights:
>>
>>#!/bin/bash
>>xscreensaver-command -display :0 -throttle
>>cd /win/c/Games/NeverwinterNights/nwn
>>wine --debugmsg -all nwmain
>>xscreensaver-command -display :0 -unthrottle
>>
>>Once the game is goint, I can use C-A-F7 to switch back to my desktop if
>>I need to.  And when I exit the game, the second X session ends,
>>returning me to my desktop.  Pretty cool :)

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Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net

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