[KLUG Members] multiple X server
Peter Buxton
members@kalamazoolinux.org
Thu, 12 Jun 2003 17:03:23 -0400
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 11:57:02PM +0530, komal was only escaped
alone to tell thee:
> How to start multiple X server on Intel 815e chipset based
> motherboard. I have tried startx -display :1:0 but it is giving me
> error that X server is already running on display 0 .
Adam already hinted at this, but your syntax is wrong:
hostname:displaynumber.screennumber
hostname defaults to localhost, which is what you want. displaynumber
(default = 0) refers to each X server on a host serving separate users.
screennumber (default = 0) refers to how many monitor groups you have
linked for each display for each user.
Therefore, :1:0 isn't any X server, but :0 and :1 (or localhost:0.0 and
localhost:1.0, to be verbose) are two separate X servers.
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