Douglas Eck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My wife and I use the same debian box. We don't want to log > in and out, and so I've been logging in as her in KDE, > doing an xhost + mymachine and then using telnet/ssh to > log in as me. > > <snip>
> Two possible solutions: > 1) Netscape 4.75 works and all is well. We can continue with this plan. > 2) Run 2 xservers and ctrl-alt-Fx back and forth. > > Does this second solution slow things down a lot? I have a 350K6 with 128Mb > RAM. > Also, is there a MINI-HOWTO on setting up two Xservers. I thought it would > be really easy but had some troubles getting everything to work "just so". I have used your second option on my machine (233 MHz Pentium x 2 SMP and 128 Mb ram) to run two X servers both with KDE. I have not noticed any difference from when I have just the one X server running. I just change to console tty2 (CTR-ALT-F2) and start X thus: startx kde -- :1 I have not noticed any problems. Barry Samuels
