[mythtv-users] OT: setting up two running X ?

[Schlaegel]

On 3/9/06, Guillaume Membré <guillaume.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
> My question may be out of topic but I have read through the list that
> some people have set up two running server X in order to get 2
> independent displays.
>
> Here is my situation: I have one pc which is my mythbox and my desktop
> box. I have two video cards and I would like to setup on my AGP card
> my normal desktop and on my second card mythtv.
>
> I can use xinerama to setup this but there is the problem of the mouse
> cursor which can go from one screen to the second. It will annoy me
> while I am watching a movie and my girlfriend surfing the web.
>

You can use the new xorg 6.9 or xorg 7 to have multiple copies of the
xorg server running at the same time without stepping on each other's
toes.

I got my idea from the website
http://blog.chris.tylers.info/index.php?/archives/14-Multiseat-X-Under-X11R6.97.0.html.

I don't have my setup here to look at now, but I recommend:
  o   Set it for single card initialization in the conf file
(otherwise you will get garbage, check with man xorg.conf)
  o   Use separate conf files (using layouts is unnecessary and makes
things more complicated)
  o   Use the X option to load the separate conf files (check with man Xserver)
  o   Use the new xorg 6.9 vt options, "-novtswitch -sharevts" on the
secondary server (otherwise only one is active at a time)
  o   Don't bother with a window manager, you don't want someone to
login to myth and everything runs full screen.