[GLLUG] KDE from command line

[Daniel R. Kilbourne]

I can think of one case : 

When I first started my job, I did not yet have a desk. I used the machine of one of my co-workers and, rather than him having to kill all his programs running under X, I just started a second X-session for my stuff.....worked well.




Melson, Paul extolled:
> I've been lurking on this thread, and I was wondering why you'd want two
> X servers displaying on a single console?  What's the advantage to this
> versus using the pager/virtual desktop features that most window
> managers have?
> 
> PaulM
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rocky Lichen [mailto:rockylichen@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 4:13 PM
> To: linux-user@egr.msu.edu
> Subject: Re: [GLLUG] KDE from command line
> 
> 
> 
> On my system, CTRL+ALT+F1 and CTRL+ALT+F7 are how I
> get between the console that starts my first X session
> and the X session itself, respectively.  
> 
> When I want a second X session, I hit CTRL+ALT+F2 to
> get a second console.  From there I can start my
> second X session with the xinit command. If I leave
> the second X session, I can get back to it with
> CTRL+ALT+F8.
> 
> Another thing you might try is starting your second
> session as another user.  It can sometimes prevent
> resource conflicts.
> 
> 
> --- steven collins <steven.collins@voyager.net> wrote:
> [...]
> > well F7 is where my original gnome session resides
> > happily on. Toggling
> > back to it is no problem. But when I open a new
> > session in gnome or kde
> > on server :1 I can't toggle back to it without
> > having issues. I just
> > tried it with gnome and ended up getting a fatal IO
> > error. I don't get
> > it. There HAS to be something I'm missing. 
> > 
> > -steven 
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    Daniel R. Kilbourne
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