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Date:      Wed, 03 Jul 2002 00:17:27 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
Cc:        FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG>, Chip Morton <tech_info@threespace.com>, "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net>
Subject:   Re: Fast User Switching
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20020703001727.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <1025662737.62690.5.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au>

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On 03-Jul-2002 Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> 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

It works fine, but you need to have a free vty for each X session.

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