Re: X and text consoles - switching back & forth?
On 3 Jan 1998, Torsten Hilbrich wrote:
> William R Ward <hermit@BayView.COM> writes:
>
> > Ahh, thanks! That works! Now what if I go to F2 and run another X
> > session. The original one will still be on 7, and the new one on
> > 8??
>
> X will always use the next free virtual terminal. If you use 6 getty
> process to get login prompts on the terminals F1 to F6. The first X
> sessions normally goes to F7, the next one to F8.
Yes, but you must specify a different display number if you start X two
times. The first one is display :0, so the second one can be :1.
Example:
<switch to console 1>
$ startx
<X starts on console 7>
<switch to console 2>
$ startx -- :1
<another X starts on console 8>
You can run as many X sessions you want like this, just as long as the
/dev/tty?? files (with ?? being a number from 1 to 63) exist for the
consoles you want to use. Just remember that every X session uses a lot of
memory.
Remco
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