Several X servers w/different WM's simultaneously?

[Alex Deucher]

On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 16:15:38 -0500, Robert Lorentz
<rlorentz at lucidsoft.org> wrote:
> Alex Deucher wrote:
> 
> >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
> >
> >
> >
> 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?
> 

you probably have to tell the WMs to only load on :0.0 or :0.1 instead
of trying to control both heads. try editing your .xinitrc and set the
DISPLAY option for whatever WM you are starting.

Alex

> Robert
>