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Re: Running multiple desktops...



Yes, iwas starting manually before making it permanent.  What I did was ctrl + 
alt + f1  logged in as her and then did startx -- :1 vt8 where it launched 
gnome(unfortunately to here displeasure).  Will give the ~/.xinitrc a go.

TIA

On Monday August 15 2005 10:34 am, Kent West wrote:
> Bill Day wrote:
> >OK, while wifes computer is down and waiting on fan to arrive I decided to
> >investigate the option of running multiple desktops on my computer on
> >different vt's.
> >I found this article:
> >http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Configuring_X#Setting_up_Multiple_X_Se
> >ssions_on_a_Single_Monitor to work however when I do it under her login it
> > automagically brings up GNOME desktop, which she does not like, where do
> > I make the change for her to get KDE desktop at?
>
> It's not clear from your posting whether you're manually starting the
> second X session, or using a login manager. However, if you're doing it
> manually, just create/edit the file ~/.xinitrc (while logged in as her)
> and put the single line:
>
>   startkde
>
> in the file. That should do the job.
>
> --
> Kent

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