[EMAIL PROTECTED] (21 Jul) | 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 "--".
Actually when in X you need to use Ctrl-Alt-F? to switch from an X display. As long as you haven't bound window mangager bindings over it. | | 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). | I haven't tried it but there is a Debian package propsel that allows propagating selections between displays. I don't know if it is just for multiheaded displays or not. The package is only 8.8k so no biggy to download. Brian -- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
