From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 25 19:20:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CE5D14C2B for ; Sat, 25 Sep 1999 19:20:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA48258; Sat, 25 Sep 1999 22:23:42 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199909260223.WAA48258@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: How to use a X server other than /usr/X11R6/bin/X ? In-Reply-To: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105CAC@site2s1> from Christopher Michaels at "Sep 25, 1999 08:26:18 pm" To: ChrisMic@clientlogic.com (Christopher Michaels) Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 22:23:42 -0400 (EDT) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)) Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Christopher Michaels wrote, > Hi, > Sorry if this is painfully obvious, but I went over the xinit and startx > information (read the script, man pages, etc...) and I can't seem to figgure > out how to use an alternate X server when starting X. > > Any pointers would be helpful. If you're going to point me to the xinit man > page, please point out a specific section I may have overlooked. If you are going to always be using this other server, move the symbolic link, /usr/X11R6/bin/X, to point to whatever server you want to be using instead of whatever it is pointing at now. If that's not what you want, I'm not sure how you missed these on the xinit(1) page, "If no specific server program is given on the command line, xinit will look for a file in the user's home direc- tory called .xserverrc to run as a shell script to start up the server. If no such file exists, xinit will use the following as a default: X :0" So you can start a specific server from .xserverrc in your $HOME. It continues to point out, "An alternate client and/or server may be specified on the command line. The desired client program and its argu- ments should be given as the first command line arguments to xinit. To specify a particular server command line, append a double dash (--) to the xinit command line (after any client and arguments) followed by the desired server command." It then continues about command line options. Are you having trouble understanding what that is trying to tell you to do? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message