From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 24 03:05:33 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D946916A4CF for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 03:05:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79CB143D41 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 03:05:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [69.27.131.0] ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Wed, 23 Feb 2005 21:03:56 -0600 Message-ID: <421D447A.7010704@daleco.biz> Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 21:05:30 -0600 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041210 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: markzero References: <476138570.20050223180240@wanadoo.fr> <421CD2EB.9060503@wilderness.dyn.dhs.org> <1763669737.20050223212628@wanadoo.fr> <421D0A9A.2000109@daleco.biz> <20050223230921.GB62904@logik.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <20050223230921.GB62904@logik.ath.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 24 Feb 2005 03:03:57.0552 (UTC) FILETIME=[7B55C700:01C51A1D] cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Different OS's? Marketshare X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 03:05:34 -0000 markzero wrote: >>>Is it possible to install multiple X servers on the same machine so that >>>one can fire up whichever one strikes one's fancy at a given time? >>> >>> >>I don't see why not, although it'd probably be more common to simply >>kill one wm session and start another to save resources. Maybe it's >>possible. I don't know if, since you've just one DISPLAY (in theory, >>anyhow) >>you would configure it. >> >>Hmm, just tested. No can do, because just one DISPLAY. Maybe some >>X guru has a solution. GNOME on ttyv1, fluxbox on ttyv2, term on ttyv3 >>etc., etc.... Would be pretty cool. >> >> >> > >This is certainly possible. You need to start X via something other than >startx as you must manually set DISPLAY vars. I have run two X servers on >my machine many times - one running a local desktop environment and the >other running a WM from a remote box over SSH (for no particular reason >other than that it's fun). > > I figured there was a way. Most times there is. I was thinking two Xservers, one monitor. CTL-ALT-F2 is Desktop B, CTL-ALT-F3 is desktop C, etc. How 'bout that? Of course, I really have no idea *why*, either; but it does at least sound "fun". Kevin Kinsey