Tom Pfeifer wrote: > buns wrote: > > > The only thing that I could suggest is to start 2 x-windows session ie > > > one at 24bpp (your default) and the other one at 16bpp when you want > > to use wp 8.0. > > While we're on this subject, can someone give me a quick rundown on how > to have two X sessions running at the same time - or at least which file > or files control this. > > The default setup is to allow only one session at a time. I have plenty > of RAM, and occasionally would like to have two running. > > Thanks
To start the 2nd session with the default bpp: startx -- :1 If you want to run the 2nd session at xbpp, you do the following : startx -- :1 -bpp x To switch between the 2 x-sessions you either use ctrl-alt-F7 (for the 1st session) or ctrl-alt-F8 (for the 2nd session)
