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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