Several X servers w/different WM's simultaneously?

[Alex Deucher]

On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 15:49:36 -0500, Robert Lorentz
<rlorentz at lucidsoft.org> wrote:
> I am trying to run 2 separate X servers with different WM's via 2 video
> cards and 2 monitors, one server on each.  This works fine launching
> both from console; but only ONE will display at a time, depending on
> which one I have 'focused' on via control-alt-shift F7 / F8.  This makes
> sense on single monitor display, X wouldn't want to bother drawing its
> screen if you are not able to view it at all.. but in a multiple monitor
> environment, this doesn't make sense.  Is there any way I can 'fix' this
> behavior so that both screens will actively display at all times?  Note
> - the keyboard and mouse are only required to work in one of the X servers.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Robert Lorentz

configure your xorg.conf for multi-head but don't tell it to use xinerama.  

Alex