Re: multiple X sessions

[ettore@math.sunysb.edu (Ettore Aldrovandi)]

E Papantoniou wrote:
-> 
-> Hi,
-> 
-> when I am logged in as a user and I run X windows, I press Ctrl-Alt-F2
-> and as expected a new terminal comes up. Then I log in as a different user
-> and I type startx. I get some errors:
-> 

Hi, you have to open another display. Try this:

startx -- /usr/X11R6/bin/X :1

Besides, you can also login as yourself, and maybe to use a
different color depth, like

starx -- /usr/X11R6/bin/X :1 -bpp 16

Have fun

Ettore
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