On 0, Michael Heironimus <mkh01@earthlink.net> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 07:52:24PM +1000, Rob Weir wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 01:36:42PM +1000, Russell wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > When using xdm, there's no where to enter > > > command line parameters to startx or initx (0:1 etc) > > > for using a second monitor, so is there an option > > > for this in .Xsession or some other file? > > > > I'm not using XDM at the moment, but GDM is controlled by files in > > /etc/X11/gdm; I imagine XDM works similarly. > > Yeah, I used to use xdm. There are several files in xdm's configuration > directory that have to do with that, there's a script to run for each > display, a file that lists the displays to start (I think xservers or > something similar), and a resource file that contains resources for > displays (both common and display-specific). Yup, the default /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers even has an example for multiple local X displays. Not sure if this is what you want for multiple screens though... How would you start multiple screens using startx? 'startx -- :0.1' doesn't work for me, but then I don't have multiple screens. If what you want is two X _servers_ running, then you need this in Xservers: :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 vt9 -bpp 16 :1 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :1 vt10 -bpp 8 but that is different to multiple screens. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience. Get my GPG public key: https://pinky.its.adelaide.edu.au/~tkcook/tom.cook-at-adelaide.edu.au
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