Re: 2 XServers on 1 terminal?

["E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)" <tgakem@sg10.chem.tue.nl>]

> 
> Hi,
> 
> Could I run 2 X servers on one comupter?  So that Alt-F7 correspond to first 
> session, and Alt-F8 for the second session?  There are 2 people working on one 
> computer, and we don't want to mess each other X sessions.
> 

Yes.  To add another session, you could go to a text console, and type

startx -- :1

and you have a second session under F8.  If you want xdm to run two
sessions, I think you should add something to /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers,
though I'm not certain what.  You will only want to do this on a
machine with plenty memory though!  Also note that the DISPLAY variable
for the second session should be my.machine.somewhere:1.0 if you have
to set it manually.

HTH,
Eric

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