RE: x window / starting the desktop
So from a basic net install boot disk, what is the minimum you would need to
install to get icewm or blackbox running ?
Ken
> -----Original Message-----
> From: debian-user-request@lists.debian.org
> [mailto:debian-user-request@lists.debian.org]On Behalf Of Kent West
> Sent: 24 January 2006 5:55pm
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: x window / starting the desktop
>
>
> Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>
> >On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:33:45 -0600
> >Kent West <westk@acu.edu> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>Now, just for kicks, did you know you can start up multiple
> instances of
> >>X, on the same box (say, one for you, one for the wife, one
> for the kid,
> >>etc)?
> >>
> >so that's cool. but does it start only multiple clients or
> multiple servers? and how resource hungry does that get to
> be? </me wanders off to test this>
> >
> >
> Multiple servers. It can get somewhat resource hungry, but
> since you're
> only using one setup at a time (unless you go to the next
> step, and add
> extra keyboards/mice/monitors, which is quite doable), stuff gets
> swapped out as necessary, so it's really no worse than a single X
> session would be, except at switch time.
>
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> Kent
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