Several X servers w/different WM's simultaneously?

[Robert Lorentz]

Alex Deucher wrote:

>On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 15:49:36 -0500, Robert Lorentz
><rlorentz at lucidsoft.org> wrote:
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>>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.
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>>Thank you,
>>
>>Robert Lorentz
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>configure your xorg.conf for multi-head but don't tell it to use xinerama.  
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>Alex
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Maybe I am missing something, I don't see that there is any place I 
explicitly would tell X to start in 'multihead' mode.  I can configure 2 
video cards, and 2 monitors, and list these as 2 screens.. but then I 
would have to run X with this configuration, and I would load a WM which 
would control both.  What I want is to have 2 separate WM's, one 
'controlling' each of these screens.  Is there a way to have 2 separate 
X servers using the same X config which makes them aware of each other 
existing somehow? 

Robert