[99981] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Running more than 1 xdm
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bob Taylor)
Tue Nov 17 22:46:37 1998
From: Bob Taylor <brtaylor@inreach.com>
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 17 Nov 1998 05:14:51 PST."
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Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 19:39:42 -0800
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In message <Pine.LNX.3.96.981117051313.5188A-100000@salmo>, Rich Shepard writes
:
> On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, Terrance L Eck wrote:
>
> > Is it possible to run more than 1 xdm server. What I'd like
> > to do is have xdm using 32bit color on vt7 and xdm using 8bit
> > on vt8. Is this possible and if so how?
>
> Terry,
>
> Don't know about xdm, however, with startx you can invoke up to 3 X
> sessions. See the latest Linux Journal for the specific syntax.
What you are looking for is /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers. I haven't tried the
following, but I think it will work.
:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -bpp 32 vt7 :0
:1 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -bpp 8 vt8 :1
Again, I haven't tried this. YMMV.
Bob
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