From: "Ulrich Fürst" <heimwill@compuserve.de>
To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Running X programs from bash w/ framebuffer
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 10:40:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050112104053.0d253094@sarge> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41E468B5.30008@comcast.net>
Jeremy Abbott <jkbullfrog@comcast.net> wrote:
> I will try this, but am curious what the purpose of the -- :0 and the
> -- :1 are. Is this in the man pages for X? Could this possibly be
the "--" stands for "end of the options and the :0 or :1 is the
(virtual) display to start on.
> for running more than one prog at a time, to switch between for the
Exactly. You can switch to :0 with "CTRL-ALT-F7" to :1 with
"CTRL-ALT-F8" and so on.
So you can have e.g. firebird on :0 oowriter on :1 and something other
on :2
> console? If so how? Or should I also read the man page for this?
It's never a bad idea to look for the options someone is suggesting
in the manual page. Maybe it fits your purposes better, using something
a bit different :-)
Ulrich
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-12 9:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-11 20:41 Running X programs from bash w/ framebuffer Jeremy Abbott
2005-01-12 5:19 ` Eric Bambach
2005-01-11 21:28 ` Jeremy Abbott
2005-01-12 6:06 ` Eric Bambach
2005-01-12 6:55 ` Ray Olszewski
2005-01-11 23:57 ` Jeremy Abbott
2005-01-12 16:21 ` Ray Olszewski
2005-01-12 17:37 ` James Miller
2005-01-12 9:40 ` Michael Scottaline
2005-01-12 7:50 ` Ulrich Fürst
2005-01-12 0:00 ` Jeremy Abbott
2005-01-12 9:40 ` Ulrich Fürst [this message]
2005-01-13 2:04 ` Peter
2005-01-13 2:15 ` Ray Olszewski
2005-01-13 3:12 ` Michael Scottaline
2005-03-10 4:35 ` Marcus Furlong
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