[ale] running two X servers

[tfreeman at intel.digichem.net]

OK. Next step would be to shut down four or five of the virtual consoles, 
and put X on them (ie. use the f3-f6 keys for X and not consoles). 

On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Geoffrey wrote:

> 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. :)
> 
> 

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