Try this one...

$ startx -- :1

That should start up another X session for you.

NOTE: This should work on any distribution.

On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Don Harrop wrote:

> I just recently had the need to start a new console (ctrl-alt-f2) and run
> another X session.  I needed an 8 bit display and just wanted to toggle
> between them with ctrl-alt-f7 and f8.  startx has the display hard coded
> to 0 on this RH 6.2 box.  I had to edit it to handle different display's.  
> Did I miss something or is this really what RH expects users to do?

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