On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 7:39 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson
<mellertson@gmail.com> wrote:
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On 07/19/2011 05:14 PM, Doug Kuvaas wrote:
> OK, so Xephyr (another Nested X server) does address the color depth
> issue we were seeing. However, our application also does not like
> displaying graphics on screens other than :0. Is there w way to
> start up Fedora/Gnome so that it uses a different screen number for X?
Well, if you were using xdm as the display manager, you could edit
/etc/X11/xdm/Xservers and change
:0 local /usr/bin/X :0
to
:1 local /usr/bin/X :1
I do not know it kdm or gdm uses that config file, or have their
own. I know they did use it way back when I needed to add an extra X
server or two. But I have not worked with this lately. I am sure
there are tools to configure them now. Someone else here is sure to
know, and post the info...
Mikkel
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That has been the problem I've been running into with newer versions of Fedora. Xorg and company have been moving towards a "work out of the box" philosophy and have done away with a lot of the config files in favor of dynamically generating these so things just work, and a simple hardware change does not break the OS as often. I've been trying to find where Xorg is actually run, so I can get it to run the way I want.
Now that I have played with Xephyr a little bit, I have found that I actually prefer this configuration for the way we are using these computers, as opposed to just starting X with no window manager or just querying a remote host.
Thanks for all the help so far.
Doug