From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 22 13: 9: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hermes.avantgo.com (ws1.avantgo.com [207.214.200.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1A5C37BC0C for ; Mon, 22 May 2000 13:09:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scott@avantgo.com) Received: from river.avantgo.com (river.avantgo.com [10.0.128.30]) by hermes.avantgo.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33E9015; Mon, 22 May 2000 13:09:04 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 13:09:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Scott Hess To: Harry Woodward-Clarke Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Are Multiple XWindows Possible? In-Reply-To: <3928B517.7D7C916D@S1.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 22 May 2000, Harry Woodward-Clarke wrote: > Jon Hamilton wrote: > > Balderdash :) There's no reason you can't run multiple X servers on > > one set of hardware; I do it all the time. You just run them on > > different virtual consoles and use control-alt-f to switch to > > whichever one you want to access. > > After torturing Jon, I extracted the magic incantation. I remember > trying this 'before', but it didn't work back then - my guess is I > mis-typed {blush} > > $ startx -- :n > > where 'n' is a number greater than '0' if you already have X running on > the 'default' display. In my experience, this can be pretty annoying, because you end up switching back and forth all the time, and often want to see something from both servers in one place. I would suggest trying Xnest, or perhaps Xvnc, unless I really needed a full-on X server. Later, scott To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message