[ltp] Last desperate attempt to show off my Debian Thinkpad at aconference

[Satish Balay]

On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, John Locke wrote:

> On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 13:31 -0500, Alex Deucher wrote:
> 
> > you can run a second X server on another vt and them switch to it
> > using ctrl-alt-Fx. however you can't  start x servers on each head
> > separately and have them accessable at the same time.
> 
> Okay. So I assume that means the second head needs to be connected when
> X starts, for it to be recognized? Is it possible to restart X to detect
> the new screen, without killing all the running applications on the
> existing screen?

[I haven't been following the complete thread but:]

How about running 'gdmflexiserver' after connecting the second device?
Usually this starts up another X-server session on VT-8'

Satish