multiple X-servers active within a single session

[Michel Dänzer]

On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 10:47 +0200, dick at kniep.nl wrote:
> 
> To clarify my question:
> 
> 1. We built a system in Python / wxPython.
> 2. The system uses OpenOffice using the Python Uno bridge. Works nicely
> 3. We use server centric computing using GoGlobal (comparable to Citrix).
> 4. We have many users connected to the server using our application connecting 
> to OpenOffice via a unique portnr per OpenOffice.
> 5. OpenOffice is also used to generate PDF's. Preferably headless. Currently 
> NOT headless.
> 6. I would like to use xvfb when a user wants to generate a pdf. But I don't 
> know how to start openoffice using xvfb instead of the "regular" xserver.

Debian ships a nice convenience script called xvfb-run for this.


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