Re: More than one xserver?

2008-07-07 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 08:58:16PM -0700, Lee Glidewell wrote: > On Sunday 06 July 2008 02:49:07 am Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 04:38:05PM -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > What's the right way to run more than one X server? > > > > You will probably get a few d

Re: More than one xserver?

2008-07-06 Thread Lee Glidewell
On Sunday 06 July 2008 02:49:07 am Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 04:38:05PM -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > > Hi, > > > > What's the right way to run more than one X server? > > You will probably get a few different answers to this question as there > is no one true Right Way to do i

Re: More than one xserver?

2008-07-06 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 07/06/2008 08:31:35 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Karl O. Pinc wrote: Why step 2, make softlinks to the X command? http://www.linux.com/base/ldp/howto/XFree-Local-multi-user-HOWTO/sym_links.html That does not explain much. Just says you have to do it. Likewise, I found in "man xinit":

Re: More than one xserver?

2008-07-06 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 07/06/2008 08:31:35 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Karl O. Pinc wrote: On 07/06/2008 07:27:05 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Karl O. Pinc wrote: What's the right way to run more than one X server? , I _could_ just run X and startX directly. Are there any out-of-the-box solutions or should

Re: More than one xserver?

2008-07-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Karl O. Pinc wrote: On 07/06/2008 07:27:05 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Karl O. Pinc wrote: What's the right way to run more than one X server? There don't seem to be any hooks in the /etc/init.d/*dm scripts. (I thought maybe there'd be something in /etc/default/, at least for gdm which IIRC

Re: More than one xserver?

2008-07-06 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 07/06/2008 07:27:05 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Karl O. Pinc wrote: What's the right way to run more than one X server? There don't seem to be any hooks in the /etc/init.d/*dm scripts. (I thought maybe there'd be something in /etc/default/, at least for gdm which IIRC has some hooks for d

Re: More than one xserver?

2008-07-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Karl O. Pinc wrote: Hi, What's the right way to run more than one X server? There don't seem to be any hooks in the /etc/init.d/*dm scripts. (I thought maybe there'd be something in /etc/default/, at least for gdm which IIRC has some hooks for different configuration settings for different DIS

Re: More than one xserver?

2008-07-06 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 04:38:05PM -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > Hi, > > What's the right way to run more than one X server? You will probably get a few different answers to this question as there is no one true Right Way to do it. Here is a very simple one: 1. login at the console with the user

More than one xserver?

2008-07-05 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Hi, What's the right way to run more than one X server? There don't seem to be any hooks in the /etc/init.d/*dm scripts. (I thought maybe there'd be something in /etc/default/, at least for gdm which IIRC has some hooks for different configuration settings for different DISPLAYs.) I'm running