second X server?

[Derek Atkins]

FYI, what I did was:

startx second -- :1 -bpp 8 vt08

(Then I keyed off of 'second' in some scripts of my own so it didn't
start up EVERYTHING on the second X session)...  Also, you may not
want the '-bpp 8', unless you want to force 256-bit color (I needed to
do so for a particular client, which has since been fixed).

-derek

Frank Ramsay <fjr at marsdome.penguinpowered.com> writes:

> Derek Martin wrote:
> > 
> > On 12 Sep 2000, Frank Ramsay wrote:
> > 
> > > I'm trying to get a second X server to come up on my computer on the
> > > 'F8' console.
> > > I've tried
> > > X :1
> > > and
> > > xinit -- /usr/X11R6/bin/X :1
> > 
> > What I did was run
> > 
> >   startx&
> > 
> > then switch back to my original VC (though you shouldn't necessarily need
> > to) and then I ran
> > 
> >   startx -- :1
> > 
> > It worked fine, although enlightenment crashed because it's not very well
> > behaved when it comes to multiple sessions, in any sense of the term...
> 
> I tried this also, it also didn't work :(
> I suspect it's a bug in the driver... 
> 
> fyi,
>   I don't want to start a window manager, that's why
> didn't mention trying startx in my post.
> 
> 
> 					-fjr
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