[ale] running two X servers

[da Black Baron]

How would one arrange things so that one of these instances of X was
running a remote wm on another box?  Hmmmm?



On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 22:53, Geoffrey wrote:
> 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 :)
> 
> -- 
> Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net
> 
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> Think about it...
> 
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