RE: 2 Xsessions?, 2 graphics cards?
*-Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk (21 Jul)
| On 20-Jul-98 Stuart Marshall wrote:
| > Is there some way to run more than one X session on my debian PC?
| >
| > Ideally I would do something like run an 8-bit depth xdm session
| > that logged me into a remote sun computer and a second X session
| > that is 16-bit depth that is my local session. If it requires a
| > second video card it is no problem. I would then be able to switch
| > between the two sessions via ALT-F7, ALT-F8 or something.
|
| The following should do what I think you're asking for:
|
| With no X up at all,
|
| 1. From your local machine (say on tty1) do
|
| startx -- -bpp 16 &
|
| This should start a 16-bit X session on your local machine (on VT-7). Now
| do Alt-F1 to get back to tty1.
|
| 2. Still from your local machine, and from tty1, do
|
| startx -- :1 -bpp 8 &
|
| This should start an 8-bit X session on your local machine (on VT-8). You
| should be able to switch between them using Alt-F8, Alt-F7. The ":1" must be
| the FIRST thing following the "--".
Actually when in X you need to use Ctrl-Alt-F? to switch from an X
display. As long as you haven't bound window mangager bindings over it.
|
| 3. From the second (8-bit) session on VT-8, telnet to the Sun machine. Then you
| should be able to do what you want. (You won't be able to cut&paste between the
| two different sessions however, and you can only see one of them at once).
|
I haven't tried it but there is a Debian package propsel that allows
propagating selections between displays. I don't know if it is just
for multiheaded displays or not. The package is only 8.8k so no biggy
to download.
Brian
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