Re: is X4 supposed to be slower?

[Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au>]

On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 11:31:18PM -0800, Prashanth Mundkur wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 02:09:53PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
> 
> > i still have an X 3.3.6-11 server running on vt12 as well as an X
> > 4.0.1-2 server running on vt7.
> 
> How does one do this? (have multiple X servers on different vts)

reconfigure xdm (or wdm or gdm or whatever) to start another X server on
a different virtual console. for xdm, see /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers.

alternatively, run "startx -- :1 vt12" from a console login shell.

you can have as many X servers as you like, each on different VCs. just
start up each server with the appropriate arguments. switch between them
with Ctrl-Alt-Fn.

one use for this is if you like to run in 16bpp normally, but have one
or two applications (e.g. games) which only run in 8bpp. just start up
an 8bpp X server on another VC.

craig

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craig sanders