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MoritzB

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Registered: 2014-03-31

Posts: 1

Trying to run i3 and Gnome in two different X sessions

So I noticed that the Nvidia X Server Settings applet allows for a seperate X session for each monitor. I have my left monitor configured as hostname:0.1 and the right one as hostname:0.0.

I want to run i3 in the left monitors' session and Gnome in the right one using GDM.

How would I configure my system properly? I'm new to Arch. Right now the right monitor runs Gnome as expected but the left one is just an empty X session. I edited my .xinitrc to

export DISPLAY=:0.0
exec gnome-session
export DISPLAY=:0.1
exec i3

but I have a slight feeling that this might not be a very favorable approach..

Thanks!