Testing a xorg.conf without logging out?

[Paul Kaplan]

On Wednesday 07 December 2005 07:27 pm, Alain Cochard wrote:
> Andreas Hauser writes:
>  > alain wrote @ Wed, 7 Dec 2005 23:00:52 +0100:
>  > > Hello.  I am wondering if it is possible to activate a modified
>  > > xorg.conf file without having to log out and log in back (because of
>  > > course this takes a lot of time).  Thanks in advance. alain
>  >
>  > $ startx -- :1
>  > this tells X to take another DISPLAY then the default :0.

Doesn't this use the default xorg.conf file?
Paul