From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jul 2 19:19: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B955337B400 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 19:19:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 655E943E46 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 19:19:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.4/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g632IsZL052988; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 11:48:56 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Subject: Re: Fast User Switching From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: "Jeremy C. Reed" Cc: Chip Morton , FreeBSD Chat In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.7 Date: 03 Jul 2002 11:48:54 +0930 Message-Id: <1025662737.62690.5.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.6 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 10:13, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > > Q: What is the equivalent functionality on FreeBSD/UNIX systems? > > You can log out while leaving apps running with VNC with X. Feel the speed :) You can run more than one X server on a given machine - you need a substantial amount of RAM though. Hmm.. well I just tried it and it didn't work - I have done it though.. startx -- :1 -- 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-chat" in the body of the message