I know this solution, the problem is not all fonts scale properly this way.  
Also, it would be convient to have more than one X session from time to time.


Jay

On Tuesday 03 July 2001  4:49 pm, you wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Jay Kline wrote:
> > Apparently all my friends are going blind.  They seem to think that
> > 1600x1280 on a 17" monitor is too hard to read.  Personally, I like it. 
> > But they still need to use my computer every now and then.  So I would
> > like to set up second X server with a lower resolution.  I know that you
> > can have 2 X servers on one machine, but I have never been successful at
> > it.  Anyone out there ever do this before?
>
> Easy way: Set up your X server to allow multiple resolutions, and hit
> ctrl-alt-minus to get to the smaller one. :)

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