[ale] running two X servers

[jb at sourceillustrated.com (John Wells)]

Another option, if the machine is on a trusted network and you want to
dodge some of the overhead of encrypting the session through ssh, is to
use the -query flag with X.

Switch from your current wm to a console (a la ctrl+alt+f1), login, then
type:

X -query RemoteHostnameOrIP :DisplayNum

On my home network I use this quite a bit.  For instance, I'm currently on
my 172.16.2.4 box, but also have a gnome-session up from my 172.16.2.8,
which I started with:

X -query 172.16.2.8 :1

One thing to note...you need to be running something that support xdmcp to
use this method.  If you're using gnome and gdm, you simply need to edit
gdm.conf and set Enable=true under the XDMCP section.

John

Black Baron said:
> Ohhhhh yah!  This is SWEET!  Bye, X-VNC!  ;-)
>
>
> (And, of course, this runs WAAAAAY faster than the winbloze32 x-server
> I've been using)....  And GAMES may be played this way, as well, eh?
>
> I'm slowly running out of reasons to run winblows at all...



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