From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 21 21:17:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from watson.ficsgrp.com (watson.ficsgrp.com [194.74.111.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D1A237BAAA for ; Sun, 21 May 2000 21:17:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from harry.woodward-clarke@s1.com) Received: from mail.au.ficsgrp.com ([194.74.111.35]) by watson.ficsgrp.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA326D for ; Mon, 22 May 2000 06:17:35 +0200 Received: from S1.com ([172.16.48.219]) by mail.au.ficsgrp.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id 685 for ; Mon, 22 May 2000 14:21:24 +1000 Message-ID: <3928B517.7D7C916D@S1.com> Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 04:18:31 +0000 From: Harry Woodward-Clarke X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Are Multiple XWindows Possible? References: <20000522034010.B188C179@woodstock.monkey.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jon Hamilton wrote: > > In message <39287D34.EEBAF272@S1.com>, Harry Woodward-Clarke wrote: > } G'day Mark, > } > } > > } > I am currently using KDE. Is it possible to install and use > } > another > } > Xwindow like XFCE3 (www.xfce.org) in addition to KDE? If so, > } > } Under normal circumstances, most would be inclined to say 'no' - unless > } you have a second physical display / monitor to actually throw the > } output to. > > Balderdash :) There's no reason you can't run multiple X servers on one > set of hardware; I do it all the time. You just run them on different > virtual consoles and use control-alt-f to switch to whichever one > you want to access. > > -- > Jon Hamilton > hamilton@pobox.com After torturing Jon, I extracted the magic incantation. I remember trying this 'before', but it didn't work back then - my guess is I mis-typed {blush} $ startx -- :n where 'n' is a number greater than '0' if you already have X running on the 'default' display. To switch, - where 'm' is 9 (for display 0), 10 (for display 'n') etc. I may have some details not-quite-right - I've been playing with this for all of 5 minutes ;') reg's, H To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message