On 20-Jul-98 Stuart Marshall wrote: > Is there some way to run more than one X session on my debian PC? > > Ideally I would do something like run an 8-bit depth xdm session > that logged me into a remote sun computer and a second X session > that is 16-bit depth that is my local session. If it requires a > second video card it is no problem. I would then be able to switch > between the two sessions via ALT-F7, ALT-F8 or something.
The following should do what I think you're asking for: With no X up at all, 1. From your local machine (say on tty1) do startx -- -bpp 16 & This should start a 16-bit X session on your local machine (on VT-7). Now do Alt-F1 to get back to tty1. 2. Still from your local machine, and from tty1, do startx -- :1 -bpp 8 & This should start an 8-bit X session on your local machine (on VT-8). You should be able to switch between them using Alt-F8, Alt-F7. The ":1" must be the FIRST thing following the "--". 3. From the second (8-bit) session on VT-8, telnet to the Sun machine. Then you should be able to do what you want. (You won't be able to cut&paste between the two different sessions however, and you can only see one of them at once). Hope this helps, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 21-Jul-98 Time: 00:32:15 -------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
