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) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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