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Date:      30 Jul 2002 10:51:12 +0930
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Shannon -jj Behrens <jj@nttmcl.com>
Cc:        Thomas Quinot <thomas@cuivre.fr.eu.org>, stan <stanb@awod.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 2nd X server, howto?
Message-ID:  <1027992077.19479.3.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20020729113912.C4008@alicia.nttmcl.com>
References:  <20020729124709.GA32078@teddy.fas.com> <20020729144404.A13317@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org>  <20020729113912.C4008@alicia.nttmcl.com>

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On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 04:09, Shannon -jj Behrens wrote:
> > 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. 
> 
> Hmm, I've never used it, but doesn't xnest allow you to do this?  It's in 
> ports.

You SHOULD be able to do something like 

startx -- -depth 8 :1

I had startx -- :1 working with X3 but it doens't appear to work with X4
(different system though)

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