options for running "switchdesk"?

[Samuel Flory]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:

>  for the first time in a while, i wanted to test switching
>from GNOME to KDE as part of a demo, so i selected:
>
>Preferences
>  More Preferences
>    Desktop Switching Tool
>
>then selected "KDE", and also selected "Change only applies to 
>current display" (wincing only slightly at the ugly syntax of that
>last choice).
>
>assuming that that last choice meant that it would affect only this
>current session, what does it mean to immediately be prompted that
>my desktop configuration requires X to be restarted for the changes
>to take effect?
>
>is this a temporary, one-time-only change or not?  sure is confusing.
>
>  
>

   I believe they mean multiple instances of X.  For example running the 
following:

startx -- :0
startx -- :1

will start 2 instances of X.

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