Re: keep x session open

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On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 23:46, Kent West wrote:
> techlists wrote:
> 
> >I am running Sid with KDE, and was wondering if I am logged in and have
> >some programs running, is there a way for someone else to log into x on
> >the same terminal, without shutting down the programs I have running?
> >that way when they are finished, I can re-log in and continue where I
> >left with the programs that I originally had still open and running.
> >
> >
> >stan
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> Sort of (which works very well in my opinion).
> 
> Lock your screen using one of the lockable screen savers.
> 
> Then press Ctrl-Alt-F2 to switch to virtual terminal #2. From there, 
> have the second user log in. After the user has logged in, have him 
> enter "startx -- :1". This will start a second instance of X on 
> (probably) terminal 8 (whereas your is (probably) on terminal 7). You 
> can then hotswitch between the two sessions with Ctrl-Alt-F7 and 
> Ctrl-Alt-F8.
> 
> If you want, you can add a third X session, or a fourth, or a fifth, or 
> . . . .
> 
> If you're using a graphical login screen, like kdm or gdm, you can 
> configure it to present a graphical login for multiple sesions instead 
> of using the text-based login.
> 
> You can even do some "magic", and hook up a second monitor and 
> keyboard/mouse to the same CPU and run two people off the same box at 
> the same time.
> 
> -- 
> Kent
> 

This seems to work well, but what about sound?  In my experience opening
up a second x session on a different Virt-terminal, the first session
has the sound card, and will not work on the second opened x-session.

stan