Mulitple X sessions on RH 6.1Jeff,

[Ben Beeson]

Jeff,

	Thanks for your help!!  I will give this a try as soon as I repartition
my hard drives.  I need to move some filesystems around as part of my setting
up of things.   	

Mahalo,

Ben 


On Mon, 05 Feb 2001, you wrote:
> First, how to have multiple X sessions
> 
> You can have multiple X sessions running at either run level.  For the
> first X session use startx by itself.  This will give you an X session
> named :0.  The next X session should be started with 'startx -- :1'.
> Don't forget the double dash in there!  Basically, there can only be one X
> session with any given name, so each additional X session needs to have
> another name (and all X session names have to be :<number>).  If you want
> the shell to be for another user, you'll have to either su to the other
> user or log in as the other user before using startx, as the X session
> will be for whichever user runs it.
> 
> 2nd, how to switch from an X session to another console screen.
> 
> X will remap the keyboard for its own uses and thats why the normal ALT-F#
> doesn't work from X.  Instead X maps the switch console screen commands to
> CTRL-ALT-F#.  So all you have to do is hold down CTRL when you switch
> screens out of X.  If your using the default setup for RedHat, and I think
> all the other distro's are the same here, you have 6 console screens
> (F1-F6).  X will bind its display to the first avail console screen so it
> usually has F7 for the first, then F8 for the second, etc.
> 
> 3rd, how to send console text to VT12.
> 
> This is a tough one, as I havn't done this in a long time.  To redirect
> messages to a console screen just redirect output to tty# where # is the
> number of the console screen.  So if you want to say hi to F12 you would
> do something like 'echo hi > /dev/tty12'.  Note that in order for this to
> work, whoever is doing this needs to have write permission to /dev/tty12.
> Now what is it you want to redirect there?  If you want the all the
> messages that X spits out as its running then I think this might work
> 'startx -- > /dev/tty12 2>&1'.  Hmm, I just tried it and it works under
> bash but not <t>csh.  Now that I think about it, it makes sense, as they
> use slightly differnt redirection commands.  Well, I'll leave it as an
> exercise for the reader to figure out the right commands for <t>csh.  It's
> late and need some sleep.
> 
> Jeff Wong
> 
> Wow, I don't think I've written this much on this list in a long time.
> I'll have to see about cutting back :)
> 
> 
> On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Ben Beeson wrote:
> 
> > Aloha all,
> >
> >     I have a desire to run multiple X sessions on one of my Linux
> > boxes.  I remember seeing somewhere a tip on how to accomplish this
> > trick, but I can't find it now.  If anyone knows how to do this, I would
> > appreciate some advice.   What I'd like to do is login on VT7 from XDM,
> > start a separate session on say VT8 for another user, and also send the
> > contents of the console to VT12 so they are always available.
> >
> >     I seem to remember that one of the requirements to do this was to
> > login from X, as opposed to logging in from a console and then starting
> > X later via startx.  My box now boots to init 5 which should take care
> > of part of the request, but I note now that changing VT as I used to do
> > when I booted init 3 doesn't seem to work anymore.   Why is this so????
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Ben
> >
> >
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