Re: multiple xservers on one machine?

[Kent West <westk@nicanor.acu.edu>]

On Thu, 31 Dec 1998, Martin Wheeler wrote:

> 
> On Thu, 31 Dec 1998, Vincent Murphy wrote:
> 
> > I and a colleague share a PC.  We would like to each run our own Xserver,
> > which can be switched to using Ctrl-Alt-F7 and F8
> 
> First user logs on, starts Xserver with     startx
>                                             (available via Ctrl-Alt-F7)
> Second user logs on, starts Xserver with    startx -- :1
>                                             (available via Ctrl-Alt-F8)
> 
> I have a 486 100 with 16Mb of RAM and 2Mb graphics on which I *always* run
> *three* Xservers simultaneously in this way.

<snip>

> msw 
> --
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> 

So does this tell X to display on the "second" display (0=first,
1=second)? And would the third session be started with "startx -- :2"? And
the fourth with "startx -- :3"? What's the limit on number of sessions?

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