Re: Xwindows help

Subject: Re: Xwindows help
From: James Zuelow (e5z8652@zuelow.net)
Date: Thu Nov 14 2002 - 17:17:45 AKST

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On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 15:46:55 -0900
"Mike Barsalou" <mbarsalou@aidea.org> wrote:

>
> Can someone help me figure what needs to happen to get X to display a
> terminal window in Alt-F9?
>
> Mike
>
Do you mean the default one, or an additional one?

To make the default X server start up on vt9:

Edit /etc/X11R6/xdm/Xservers (this file has lots of comments, you should have no problem. Also examples for having more than one server start up at boot.)

To interactively start an additional X server on vt9:

$ startx -- :1 vt8 &

Was just talking about this earlier today. :)

Cheers,

James

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