-----Original Message----- From: Brian Densmore
I believe that the tty2 could be written as tty[1-6] (where [1-6] means to write in any one of tty1 ...) and still have the same effect ... I'll try the tty1 and tty2 methods tonight and report back my findings.
-----Original Message----- From: Brian Kelsay
So, for clarity sake, the :0 is the first Xserver instance and it is being attached to the 7th virtual terminal (vt7). The :1 is the 2nd Xserver and it is attached to the 8th virtual terminal...
Works as expected. vt7 and vt8 are used and Alt-F7 and Alt-F8 work to get to the screens (Ctrl-Alt-Fn from inside X).
Jeremy Turner <> 11/30/04 01:46PM >>>
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 11:13:02AM -0600, Brian Densmore wrote:
I'm running kdm and would like to know if anyone is running more than one desktop simultaneously?
Check the /etc/kdm/kde3/kdm/Xservers file. I have a line that says:
On my system it is /etc/kde3/kdm/Xservers and there are commented out lines like the one below. Although they have "reserve" in between the local.. and the X path. I removed that and restarted the system. I know I didn't need to do that. The commented out lines used progressive tty numbers so I left it alone. Hopefully it was done that way for a purpose. I was too chicken to change it. Maybe over the weekend when (theoretically) I have more time to fix anything I break.
So I now have entries like this in my Xserver file: ... :0 local@tty1 /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp vt7 :1 local@tty2 /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp :1 vt8 #:2 local@tty3 reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp :2 vt9 #:3 local@tty4 reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp :3 vt10 #:4 local@tty5 reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp :4 vt11 #:5 local@tty6 reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp :5 vt12 ...
You'll note the there is a :1 on the second line. This is necessary. It won't work without it.
:0 local@tty1 /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp vt7
My guess is that you would add a line just below it that says:
:1 local@tty2 /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp vt8
So Thanks again Jason, I didn't find that in any of the man pages I looked at. Just curious did you find it in a man page, or by browsing?
Brian