second X server?

[ddm at mclinux.com (Derek Martin)]

On 12 Sep 2000, Frank Ramsay wrote:

> I'm trying to get a second X server to come up on my computer on the
> 'F8' console.
> I've tried 
> X :1
> and
> xinit -- /usr/X11R6/bin/X :1

What I did was run 

  startx& 

then switch back to my original VC (though you shouldn't necessarily need
to) and then I ran 

  startx -- :1

It worked fine, although enlightenment crashed because it's not very well
behaved when it comes to multiple sessions, in any sense of the term...


-- 
Derek Martin
System Administrator
Mission Critical Linux
martin at MissionCriticalLinux.com 

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