On Tue, Jul 21, 1998 at 10:00:35AM +1000, Manfred Bartz wrote: > > Stuart Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 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. > > If you have enough RAM you can do this: > > Go to a text mode console, if in X use CTL-ALT-Fn to do that. Fn is > F6 on my system. > > Start a second X-server with > startx -- :1 -pbb 8 > [stuff deleted] a better way to do this might be to run an xdm server on the sun box, then start your second (sun) X session with ``X :1 -bpp 8 -query sunbox'' - you will then have to log into the sun machine from that X session, but it should behave exactly as if you logged into the sun durectly, whereas the start xserver, telnet and run commands is more cumbersome and can have problems with the X authorization & DISPLAY environ variables. This way is much cleaner.
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