startx

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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From Don Harrop <don@nis4u.com> Wed Dec 6 18:48:27 2000
From: Don Harrop <don@nis4u.com> (Don Harrop)
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 11:48:27 -0700 (MST)
Subject: startx
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0012061117440.7866-100000@woden.vikingsystems.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0012061148030.3490-100000@tech1.nis4u.com>

Yep that did it. Thankx.

Don

On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Ken Bowley wrote:

> Try this one...
>
> $ startx -- :1
>
> That should start up another X session for you.
>
> NOTE: This should work on any distribution.
>