From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 26 15:55:16 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE5BF37B41D for ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 15:55:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from famine.e-raist.com (famine.e-raist.com [65.100.40.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E592043F3F for ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 15:55:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from aburke@nullplusone.com) Received: from thebe (evrtwa1-ar10-4-40-153-150.evrtwa1.dsl-verizon.net [4.40.153.150]) (authenticated bits=0) by famine.e-raist.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h1QNt9aw045759; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 15:55:11 -0800 (PST) From: "Aaron Burke" To: , "User Tysken" Subject: RE: XDM on multiple virutal X screens ( ALT-F9,ALT-F10...) Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 15:55:08 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <20030227001629.GA72621@dasboot.birch.se> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG (snip) > > You have searched well enough. I remember playing with this > > for about a week in the past. (when I first got it working). > > Its amazing how easy the change is to make though. There are a few good reasons I can think of. Simply running an other instance of X-Windows takes up more resources. Most just run virtual-desktops to get around problems like this. > > Perhaps folk does not like to run it for some reasons. But If i want it to > get it running on diffrent screens I have to edit > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config I guess and add the other graphic > card there, and so forth. Adding the other entry to XServers does not have anything to do with running it on multiple monitors. There are three connectivity sections to every X window. Adding a line to Xservers (to my knowlege) does not have anything to do with running on two different monitors in a dual-head'd configuration. A second monitor/display would show up as :0.1, :1.1, etc. A third monitor would be :0.2 or :1.2, etc. Also note that the lack of a host name tells the X-Windows system to find the best way of communicating with the localhost. There are several other ways of communicating with the X-Server including UNIX sockets, IPX, etc. A simple way to remember it is Hostname:Window:Screen. (snip) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message