Re: startx on another terminal say, tty8 and then tty9

[ktb <x.y.f@home.com>]

On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 10:25:59PM +0530, shyamk@eth.net wrote:
> A]] I tried startx -l:8 for getting
> XWindows onto tty8 and then Ctrl+Alt+F8 to get there
> 
>          Result : (1)If the machine has not put up XWindows by default , then it
> comes on tty7 , which is the default.
>                  (2) if XWindows comes up as default , then this shows an error ,
> saying that display is already active on 0.
> 
> B]] Then I did from another user's shell :
> startx -l:10  for getting
> XWindows onto tty9 and then Ctrl+Alt+F9 to get there.
> 
>  Result : this shows an error , saying that display is already active on 0.
> 
> 
> I remember some member of the list confidently assuring members that you can open
> XWindows display on more than one virtual terminal .
> 


$ startx -- :1 
should work.  By default it will be running on F8 if you have X running
on F7 already.
hth,
kent