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Running more than one X server, how (or maybe there's another way)?
- From: Chris Green <chris at areti dot co dot uk>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 20:59:07 +0000
- Subject: Running more than one X server, how (or maybe there's another way)?
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Reply-to: chris dot green at isbd dot co dot uk
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?
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Chris Green (chris@areti.co.uk)