On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, Ted Harding wrote: > 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 &
If you're using xdm to logon to your computer, you should also be able to have one xdm-loginscreen directly connected to that sun machine, and the other to your local box. I *think* the only thing required is to put a line like '1: local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -bpp 8' in /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers. Can somebody with more knowledge of xdm-workings please comment on this? Maarten _____________________________________________________________________________ | TU Delft, The Netherlands, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems | | Department of Electrical Engineering | | Computer Architecture and Digital Technique section | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
