Testing a xorg.conf without logging out?

[Paul Kaplan]

On Wednesday 07 December 2005 08:03 pm, Alain Cochard wrote:
> Paul Kaplan writes:
>  > On Wednesday 07 December 2005 07:27 pm, Alain Cochard wrote:
>  > > Andreas Hauser writes:
>  > >  > alain wrote @ Wed, 7 Dec 2005 23:00:52 +0100:
>  > >  > > Hello.  I am wondering if it is possible to activate a modified
>  > >  > > xorg.conf file without having to log out and log in back (because
>  > >  > > of course this takes a lot of time).  Thanks in advance. alain
>  > >  >
>  > >  > $ startx -- :1
>  > >  > this tells X to take another DISPLAY then the default :0.
>  >
>  > Doesn't this use the default xorg.conf file?
>
> Well, I guess so, but if that default file is the one you modify,
> isn't that OK?

But if you don't restore your original xorg.conf before you have to restart X 
on display :0 (say X crashes)  you might have a non-working X.  (You do have 
a back up of the original xorg.conf?)

Check out man Xorg.  It looks like you can specify the xorg.conf file with 
something like:  startx -config <xorg.config_file> -- :1 though I've never 
tried it.
Paul