Fedora 10 ctf-alt-F2

Mikkel L. Ellertson mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Wed Dec 10 17:26:38 UTC 2008


Don Levey wrote:
> 
> On my F10 machine, my main X session is on Ctrl-Alt-F1, as expected.
> However, Ctrl-Alt-F2 (or "switch user") bring me to a console login.
> Trying to "startx" tells me that "Server is already active for display
> 0" and recommends deleting the /tmp/.X-lock file.  I don't want to do
> that and disable my main session; I want a second X session as another
> user.  Any of the Ctrl-Alt-Fn combinations don't seem to help here.
> 
> Is this no longer possible in F10?  The upgrade of my home desktop
> depends upon this functionality.
> 
>  -Don
> 
Dumb question - are you telling startx to use a different screen,
instead of the default screen 0?

startx -- :1

Mikkel
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