On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 11:55:01 -0600 Kent West <westk@acu.edu> wrote: > 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. well hey, that's pretty slick. Its one of those things I knew could be done with a true multi-user OS, but had never bothered to play around with. the best part of this list is all the things I learn that I may never use, but then again... A > > -- > Kent > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org >
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