On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 08:58:16PM -0700, Lee Glidewell wrote: > On Sunday 06 July 2008 02:49:07 am Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 04:38:05PM -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > What's the right way to run more than one X server? > > > > You will probably get a few different answers to this question as there > > is no one true Right Way to do it. Here is a very simple one: > > > > 1. login at the console with the user for the first X > > 2. run 'startx' > > 3. switch to some other console and login as the user for the second > > X (can also be the same user) > > 4. run 'startx -- DISPLAY=:1' > (I hope this minor thread hijacking isn't resented too much) > > I tried that, and every variation returns an error telling me that X is > already running, and I should try removing some lock file if I feel that this > message was received in error. I don't have any reason to need two X servers, > so am really just curious for my own edification. Is there some configuration > I need to tweak to allow more than one display? Ooups, I wrote that out of memory (but I get "option unrecognized"). The correct command is startx -- :1 Thanks for testing, I wouldn't want to spread wrong information Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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