Re: Running more than one X server, how (or maybe there's anotherway)?

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Chris Green wrote:

> I am trying to run more than one X server on my WIn2k system and don't
> seem to be able to do it.  Maybe I'm trying to do the wrong thing and
> there's another approach to get what I want.
>
> I'm running the -60 version.
>
> I run a multiple/virtual desktop system on my win2k machine, I run the
> cygwin X server to display a remote system's Linux desktop in one of
> the virtual windows and it occupies the whole window.
>
> What I want to do in addition is to display local rxvt windows on
> demand on other win2k virtual desktop windows.
>
> Trying to start another X server to display the local rxvt window(s)
> doesn't seem to work, I've tried using the -screen parameter but that
> didn't seem to get me far, the rxvt windows insisted in popping up on
> the Linux desktop anyway and the second X server failed to start up
> with an error message about invalid screen parameters.
>
> Can anyone think of a way of getting what I want?  Can I start up an X
> server that will see the win2k virtual screens as different displays,
> or can I start up one that will see them all as one big wide display?

Try "XWin :0 &; XWin :1 &".  Of course, arbitrary parameters may be added
to either invocation...
	Igor
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