Re: 2 Xsessions?, 2 graphics cards?
Hi...
Uhhh....you can run another X server on your machine in 8 bpp if you want.
It'll use the next available tty (i.e. if :0 is on tty7 then :1 (the
second server) will run on tty8). You should be able to switch between
them using CTRL-ALT-<tty>.
You can also just start up the second X server by itself (run `X', or your
X server name directly if you want to use another video card), and run a
window manager on the Solaris machine which would presumably let you run
terminal emulators and X clients on it. (all this can be done in xdm, but
I'm not going to go into that unless you actually ask me to :)
Alex
On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Stuart Marshall wrote:
> Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 16:05:58 -0700
> From: Stuart Marshall <marshall@sioux.llnl.gov>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: 2 Xsessions?, 2 graphics cards?
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> Hi,
>
> I am a happy debian user (since 0.93R6) and I am wondering if
> I can do something a bit unusual. I suffer from having 2 computers
> in my office, one is a debian PC, the other a sun workstation.
> I would really like to cut that down to just the PC by using a
> remote sun computer.
>
> 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.
>
> Is this pie-in-the-sky or is there some way to do something close
> to this.
>
> Stuart
>
> PS. I realize I could just run remote X clients on my local display
> but I need to run the Sun solaris applications (saoimage, ximtool, idl)
> etc in 8-bit mode.
>
>
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