From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ulrich =?ISO-8859-15?Q?F=FCrst?= Subject: Re: Running X programs from bash w/ framebuffer Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 10:40:53 +0100 Message-ID: <20050112104053.0d253094@sarge> References: <41E439F4.6030404@comcast.net> <20050112085050.39aec35f@sarge> <41E468B5.30008@comcast.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <41E468B5.30008@comcast.net> Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Jeremy Abbott 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs