[plug] Multiple Xservers

[David Griffiths]

Bret Busby wrote:

>
>>From the above, my understanding is that a user types startx for the first
>session, then startx - :1 for the second session. Is that correct?

Yes

>Is a third
>session iniated, by typing in startx - :2 ?
Yes

>Or, is the :1 switch used for each
>successive session?
no

>
>Do you need extra RAM, either on the motherboard
just enough to run all the concurrent xservers and apps

>, or on the video card, or a
no

>powerful CPU to do that?
no, not really more powerful than one xserver unless apps in sessions are
chewing up cpu

>Also, does that allow for different logins to run X simultaneously? For
>example,
>can I login as a user, and run X, and then login as root, and run X, while the
>user session of X is running?

yep, I have used three different sessions with different users, different
colour depths,
different window managers and even different resolutions, concurrently.

Would make a good demo at linux fests - windows can;t come near this!


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