> >Is it possible to install multiple X servers on the same machine so that > >one can fire up whichever one strikes one's fancy at a given time? > > I don't see why not, although it'd probably be more common to simply > kill one wm session and start another to save resources. Maybe it's > possible. I don't know if, since you've just one DISPLAY (in theory, > anyhow) > you would configure it. > > Hmm, just tested. No can do, because just one DISPLAY. Maybe some > X guru has a solution. GNOME on ttyv1, fluxbox on ttyv2, term on ttyv3 > etc., etc.... Would be pretty cool. >
This is certainly possible. You need to start X via something other than startx as you must manually set DISPLAY vars. I have run two X servers on my machine many times - one running a local desktop environment and the other running a WM from a remote box over SSH (for no particular reason other than that it's fun). -- PGP: http://www.darklogik.org/pub/pgp/pgp.txt B776 43DC 8A5D EAF9 2126 9A67 A7DA 390F DEFF 9DD1
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