Re: How to have more than one X display?

[Joe Krahn <jkrahn at nc dot rr dot com>]

Joe Krahn wrote:
> Soong, SylokeJ wrote:
>
> > How to indecisively start more than one X display on my XP system?
> >
> >
> > Currently I have a startxwin.bat:
> > ================================
> > SET DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
> > ......
> > run XWin -screen 0 1750 1350 -whateverelse
> > run wmaker
> >
> >
> > as well as startxwin1.bat:
> > =========================
> > SET DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.1
> > ......
> > run XWin -screen 1 1750 1350 -whateverelse
> > run wmaker
> The problem here is that you are varying the screen number, not the 
> display number. Multiple screens come from one server. Try using 
> DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:1.0 for the second one.
>
> It seems to work OK, at least if you don't try to use multi-window mode 
> for both, even though several things hint that XWin code does not worry 
> much about multiple servers.
Oh...
The DISPLAY variable has no effect on XWin. Try the following:

  XWin :0.0
and
  XWin :1.0

I can run several of these. But, I noticed that MultiWindow mode is 
broken for anything but display :0.

Joe

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