From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jul 29 18:21:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC2EC37B400 for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 18:21:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CFBC43E3B for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 18:21:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.4/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6U1LCZL050441; Tue, 30 Jul 2002 10:51:14 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Subject: Re: 2nd X server, howto? From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Shannon -jj Behrens Cc: Thomas Quinot , stan , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20020729113912.C4008@alicia.nttmcl.com> References: <20020729124709.GA32078@teddy.fas.com> <20020729144404.A13317@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org> <20020729113912.C4008@alicia.nttmcl.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 30 Jul 2002 10:51:12 +0930 Message-Id: <1027992077.19479.3.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.6 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 04:09, Shannon -jj Behrens wrote: > > I need to run a 2nd X server on my STABLE machine, so that I can use it to > > display a brain dead commercial app from a remote machine. This app will > > core dump, if the server has more than 256 colors, and I don't want to live > > with that for normal operation. > > Hmm, I've never used it, but doesn't xnest allow you to do this? It's in > ports. You SHOULD be able to do something like startx -- -depth 8 :1 I had startx -- :1 working with X3 but it doens't appear to work with X4 (different system though) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message