Re: Second X

[Anders Skolseg Bruvik <abruvik@ifi.uio.no>]

Dennis Kaplan <News@orces.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> How can I log in to a second X session on my debian machine?
> Right now I have X on F7 I like to log in as a different user on F8 
>
>

If you use xdm you can add a second line to /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers, like: 

#start two xservers
:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X vt7 -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp
:1 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :1 vt8 -dpi 100 -bpp 8 -nolisten tcp

this will give you another X session on F8

Anders