From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 21 17:19:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from watson.ficsgrp.com (watson.ficsgrp.com [194.74.111.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63CC237BA45 for ; Sun, 21 May 2000 17:19:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from harry.woodward-clarke@s1.com) Received: from mail.au.ficsgrp.com ([194.74.111.35]) by watson.ficsgrp.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA2799 for ; Mon, 22 May 2000 02:19:11 +0200 Received: from S1.com ([172.16.48.219]) by mail.au.ficsgrp.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id 642; Mon, 22 May 2000 10:22:56 +1000 Message-ID: <39287D34.EEBAF272@S1.com> Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 00:20:04 +0000 From: Harry Woodward-Clarke X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Mark A. Hummel" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Are Multiple XWindows Possible? References: <3927E246.B68E3E18@ispchannel.com> <20000521.15531400@bartequi.ottodomain.org> <39287974.37D3450E@ispchannel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG G'day Mark, > > I am currently using KDE. Is it possible to install and use > another > Xwindow like XFCE3 (www.xfce.org) in addition to KDE? If so, Under normal circumstances, most would be inclined to say 'no' - unless you have a second physical display / monitor to actually throw the output to. > what command, > other than startx would I use to load it? However... vnc (it's in the ports collection) comes to the rescue quite nicely here. Typically I use it from home to access my system/account(s) and throw the vnc display back to home - *but* there are times when I will fire up NetscapeNavigator from home via vnc, and the come in on Monday and find there is a lock-file stopping me from starting it up. Ok, I could $kill and then rm the lock file, but easier is to use vnc on the local display, attach, and shutdown NetNav gracefully. My primary (:0) display has KDE, while the vnc display (:2) has Window Maker. (p.s. I'm looking at pulling OpenMotif and using that r.s.n. :') hth, haxxa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message