Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!usc!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de!roell From: roell@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Thomas Roell) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: VGA X11R4 server problems Message-ID: <9006080800.AA11390@kiss.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Date: 8 Jun 90 08:00:09 GMT References: <9006021541.AA04752@shamash.McRCIM.McGill&EDU(> Sender: root@athena.mit.edu (Wizard A. Root) Reply-To: Organization: The Internet Lines: 44 >I have a reason for wanting real switching among X sessions. > >There are two people in my office: me and one other. There is only one >X screen in the office. > >It would be very nice if we could each have our own X session going, >with the ability to switch between sessions at the tap of a key. There >have been various programs produced which give a rooms-like effect by >iconifying and uniconifying windows, but this isn't good enough: the >switch must also switch window managers, should switch xhost and xset >settings, everything - just as though there were two entirely different >machines. (The console window might be an acceptable exception; xhost >and xset settings *might* be another.) > >Now. Tell me again how there is ABSOLUTELY NO REASON to want real >switching between terminals? ok. 1) switching virtual terminals and starting two servers won't succed, cause both servers will try to open /dev/X/server.0. 2) The idea of having multible X screens (idependent with own twm) is so good, that I started adding some code for this. The goal is to start the server only one time (saves some memory) and specify how many screen there should be. When running you can switch via a hot-key between your differen sessions as same as with the normal vt's (switiching between vt's will be also supported). I think that's exactly what you (and perhaps many others) will need. I'm shure that you can live with the limit that there can be only 32 screens parallel. Thanx for your good idea. BTW do you know how I can be added to xperts mailing list ? - Thomas _______________________________________________________________________________ Mail: Thomas Roell (c/o Daniel Hernandez) Inst. f. Informatik / Technische Universitaet M"unchen Arcisstr. 21 / 8000 Munich 2 / Fed.Rep. of Germany E-Mail (domain): roell@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de UUCP (when above fails): roell@tumult.{uucp | informatik.tu-muenchen.de} -------------------------------------------------------------------------------