On Thu, 1 Jan 1998, Joey Hess wrote: > That's a bit clumsy. It'd be easier to start one server the usual way, > then for each extra server you want, do "X :n.0 -query localhost". That makes > X connect to the xdm on the localhost, and you don't need to send xdm any > signals.
I have heard that, even with no "real" network involved, tcp/ip sockets are slower than the "unix" type sockets normally used by xdm. A clean solution is to explicitly tell each Xserver on which console to run, like this: <quote from /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers> :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X vt9 :0 -bpp 16 :1 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X vt10 :1 -bpp 8 </quote> This runs an Xserver on :0 with 16-bit color depth at console 9 and another Xserver on :1 with 8-bit color depth at console 10 (I use 8 consoles for normal text logins, so consoles 9 and 10 are the first available). It can take a while for both Xservers to start up completely, but they will both start up. Only thing is, you can't predict which one will start first and which one will start last. Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
