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Thanks a lot for the pointer in Xservers file. I modified the file, and it is working fine with 2 X sessions. Want my copy of the file? Thanks again. Regards, C. J. Tan On Sun, 28 Jun 1998, Juergen Braukmann wrote:
C. J. Kenneth Tan wrote:
How can I start multiple X sessions? I want to have an X session started on VT7, another on VT8. Has anyone done this before?
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
I remembered that this was easy as nothing, and that I stored the info. I went digging for about the next hour, because it interested me again. Nothing in the SDB, not much in my stored mails, but on a tiny note paper:
here we go:
startx -- :1 -bpp 8
will start another X-server (256 colors) on vt08 [ctrl + alt + f8] If you want a different color depth, make sure there is an appropiate modeline in /etc/xf86config (or however this darn file is called).
I found another hint:
see /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers:
you can start further x-servers there, but I was *not* so successful like above. I dug through some man pages without success. So, that's all you may squeeze out of me. ;-)
Jürgen
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