----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Marriage" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2000 8:37 AM
Subject: Re: [expert] 2 Xwin sessions
> You can have as many as you have memory and CPU power for.
> I like the following method for this.
> I put the following lines into my
> /etc/bashrc
> this way I can start a session with
> X
> and a second with
> X2
> While I have 6 defined, the only time I ever ran that many
> was during a demonstration of different window managers.
> It was display and demo and I wasn't really doing any work
> on any of them.
>
> =======
>
> # Starting Multiple Sessions of X
> alias x="startx -- -bpp 16 -quiet &"
> alias x2="startx -- :1 -bpp 16 -quiet &"
> alias x3="startx -- :2 -bpp 16 -quiet &"
> alias x4="startx -- :3 -bpp 16 -quiet &"
> alias x5="startx -- :4 -bpp 16 -quiet &"
> alias x6="startx -- :5 -bpp 16 -quiet &"
>
> ========
>
> edit the above to have your prefered display resolution.
> I use 16 bpp above only because it was convenient.
>
> Ron
How about dual head with XFree86-4.0, launching a separate X for each
monitor instead of xinerama?
Hoyt
