Re: starting X with another display

[Ciccio <ciccio@arrakis.es>]

> On Thu, 19 Jun 1997, BG Lim wrote:
> 
> > What is the command to open a separate display instead of VT7?
> 
> For startx, it's
> 
>     exec startx -- :1
> 
> but I don't know about xdm.
> 

This is, if you have another screen attached to your computer. But
I suppose you want to run another X server. I had to do this with
for to be able to test a program I was develloping under different
conditions. It's possible to add a line in /etc/X11/xdm/Xserver:
	:1 local tty08 /usr/X11R6/bin/X -bpp 8 -cc 3
-bpp 8 of course is the depth of color planes, and -cc 3 is the
visual type. As a reminder, I put in mine these comments:
#                       0 for StaticGray
#                       1 for GrayScale
#                       2 for StaticColor
#                       3 for PseudoColor
#                       4 for TrueColor
#                       5 for DirectColor
But actually, It might be a better idea to call this manually
with startx, if you don't need the 2nd X server running all the time.

-- 
Ciccio C. Simon
ciccio@arrakis.es



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