Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 23:09:21 +0000 From: markzero <mark@darklogik.org> To: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Different OS's? Marketshare Message-ID: <20050223230921.GB62904@logik.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <421D0A9A.2000109@daleco.biz> References: <!~!UENERkVCMDkAAQACAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABgAAAAAAAAAkUru9e0Xgkm1jphiEj0758KAAAAQAAAAVNKPkcwi5Uq3w6wWDp/biAEAAAAA@video-phones-evdo.com> <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNIEHPFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> <476138570.20050223180240@wanadoo.fr> <421CD2EB.9060503@wilderness.dyn.dhs.org> <1763669737.20050223212628@wanadoo.fr> <421D0A9A.2000109@daleco.biz>
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--eJnRUKwClWJh1Khz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > >Is it possible to install multiple X servers on the same machine so that > >one can fire up whichever one strikes one's fancy at a given time? >=20 > I don't see why not, although it'd probably be more common to simply > kill one wm session and start another to save resources. Maybe it's > possible. I don't know if, since you've just one DISPLAY (in theory,=20 > anyhow) > you would configure it. >=20 > Hmm, just tested. No can do, because just one DISPLAY. Maybe some > X guru has a solution. GNOME on ttyv1, fluxbox on ttyv2, term on ttyv3 > etc., etc.... Would be pretty cool. >=20 This is certainly possible. You need to start X via something other than startx as you must manually set DISPLAY vars. I have run two X servers on my machine many times - one running a local desktop environment and the other running a WM from a remote box over SSH (for no particular reason other than that it's fun). --=20 PGP: http://www.darklogik.org/pub/pgp/pgp.txt B776 43DC 8A5D EAF9 2126 9A67 A7DA 390F DEFF 9DD1 --eJnRUKwClWJh1Khz Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iQIVAwUBQh0NIKfaOQ/e/53RAQoIkg//UJfvnEW/MKEGmPRyFGgc+AWWWsEalMze 8tew+Geh/dxp08Y9kHWhoi1+EGBAZIY2R72o/zvw6XR5ccJAOdEaH20o4P4oiQ+A EMhn6v19ZDNHS8d6OxaECN/VRIZRNwRGxEuI/9L2jcDwXR08RLOQJehxa1PVpNla bF48wdVtKMFwPqbPnwbpd6QKmu+KEuXZWeL5kWn2zV04CDzKrLIBMOuevQQkiXcV yVDlht1e6Jj0yskhdyAFX6uhK9+YyFvbD5KFp+FDl7tq57Vsk31cz4zfNjyLgR2O D1fEru02159QhiietYNs9fBH6hN1anVLto45fQyZAFFbMvrfb9Knh1XwsmJhrb5o PHpUPxxLZxWj7tJ4AYolC7hRmwZnbcfoClDSTDkACuStBtdxkyLXjAJg2rwbXJHA BR5BTmUVMfuOww2XQIg/BSHDe3hEtvnWYkDWc4Oxj4+8qHCLVlm1JiGBNij7EVEA BgNvaXLDjtcCbjZcS3ZAQa30Bz8XTIsCfOev1KBCow9qnkG15QeqxTC1JqxMdoN6 YfuRyHIKrYoc2DcT4QYwz2l22jStO5ZyZJGUQYHXlKuS7aZBazoLt298eGlLgnid dDw1HMDvo9B+lCtQwdzLvk85eWOOr5TyD6hzTxRQ9lTfovq1w0vERDkgXvixnOWT TC01WXuiMTs= =aNsq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --eJnRUKwClWJh1Khz--
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