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Original von Kenneth
It possible. You just switch to the next virtual terminal using ALT+Fx (F1-F12) and login. It will most likely not have X already started, so use the startx command after you log in and voila.
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Original von natrius
This is the way I do it:
ctrl+alt+f1 to switch to a console
login with the user you want
at the console type startx -- :1
This will start up an X session in the user's default window manager. Just lock the screen when you don't want someone else to access your session. If you need a third X session, you'd do the same thing, except ctrl+alt+f2 to switch to a console and startx -- :2 to start the X session. Increment the numbers for each additional session you need. The initial session will be assigned to crtl+alt+f7 and each new session will use the next f key. I assume it goes all the way up to f12, but I'm not sure. Good luck!
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Original von MadCow
I dont' have a button "Start new session". Do I have to enable that some where?? (I do have MDK9.1 with KDE 3.1)
And I see other places, ppl say that I can only have one GUI session open... the other 7 or so are all terminal based...
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Original von MadCow
Any ways... so I tryed F8... nothing happend, just ent to a black screen with a blinking cursor Is this beacuse my second x server is not configured correctly?? Any way to fix this??
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Original von MadCow
Then I tryed F6 and started the x server... that worked... I started GAIM with a diffrent user... i could see my MSN user in the other session... so I switched back... my original session was still working... so I went back to F6 and nothing worked.... the session was all messed up
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The Xservers file
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This file tells kdm which/when/how X-Servers ("desktop sessions",
"login screens") should be started. The file is backwards compatible with
XDM's Xservers file, but it contains some extensions:
[...]
* reserve. A server marked as reserve is not started at KDM's startup time,
but when the user explicitly requests it. See "Command FiFos" below.
Example:
:0 local@tty1 /usr/bin/X11/X vt7
:1 local reserve /usr/bin/X11/X :1 vt8
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