Re: tlug: Emacs these days

["Andrew S. Howell" <andy@example.com>]

>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Linsley <plinsley@example.com> writes:

    Peter> Your message dated: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 18:30:26 +0900
    >> >>>>> "Peter" == Peter Linsley <plinsley@example.com> writes:
    >> 
    Peter> I use three X servers quite often. That way I can use the
    Peter> desktop of a machine running XDM in the noisy machine room
    Peter> without having to go there, they can be switched between
    Peter> with a key press.
    >>  Peter,
    >> 
    >> How does this work? I've done a similar thing with Xnest, but
    >> I've never run several actual X servers?
             
    Peter> I've not heard of Xnest. What I have been doing is this:

Xnest has a fairly small footprint:

USER       PID %CPU %MEM  SIZE   RSS TTY STAT START   TIME COMMAND
andy      8922  0.0  4.0  4772  2528  pc S    09:28   0:01 Xnest :1
-geometry 1145x849 -query chibi 

This should free up a fair amount of memory for you.

Andy

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