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Re: Multiple desktops in lightdm?



On Thu 06 Nov 2014 at 12:49:45 -0500, Eric Sharkey wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 4:14 AM, Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > A different method to achieve the same thing would be to use Ctrl-Alt-Fx
> > to switch to a console, login and start another X instance with
> >
> >     startx -- :1
> 
> You don't even need the "-- :1" any more.  startx is now smart enough
> to find an unused display on its own.

Nowadays (testing/unstable) a simple 'startx' doesn't even have to hunt
around for an unused display because it will always bring X up on the
tty it is started from.


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