From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jul 29 5:44:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4399D37B400 for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 05:44:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org (melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org [62.212.105.185]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B86A43E4A for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 05:44:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thomas@cuivre.fr.eu.org) Received: by melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 80ABE2C3D5; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 14:44:04 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 14:44:04 +0200 From: Thomas Quinot To: stan Cc: FreeBSD Stable Mailing List Subject: Re: 2nd X server, howto? Message-ID: <20020729144404.A13317@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org> Reply-To: thomas@cuivre.fr.eu.org References: <20020729124709.GA32078@teddy.fas.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020729124709.GA32078@teddy.fas.com>; from stanb@awod.com on Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 08:47:09AM -0400 X-message-flag: WARNING! Using Outlook can damage your computer. Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Le 2002-07-29, stan écrivait : > I need to run a 2nd X server on my STABLE machine, so that I can use it to > display a brain dead commercial app from a remote machine. This app will > core dump, if the server has more than 256 colors, and I don't want to live > with that for normal operation. You just need to start the 2nd server on a different display: startx -- :1 It will grab the next free virtual console and display there. -- Thomas.Quinot@Cuivre.FR.EU.ORG To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message