OK, I don't know what is going on, but this is my 6th attempt at getting
this through to the list! I've tried different mailservers, using "new
msg"
& "reply", and several changes of text/subject. Other emails are going
out OK, just not this
one! My apologies if the floodgates suddenly burst and all 6 hit the
list.
Alan Shoemaker wrote:
> Sean....that has been doable for a long time. Use this syntax:
> 'startx -- :x'. Your original session defaults to x=0, the next
> should be x=1 etc. Ctl-alt f7-f12 accesses the x-sessions
> whereas ctl-alt f1-f6 accesses the consoles you started the
> x-sessions in.
>
Well, I thought this was too good to be true, so I tried it...
Logged onto tty2 as root, did startx -- :1 and was real impressed to see
KDE start up as root. Yes, Ctrl-Alt-F7 took me back to KDE logged in as
me. WOW it worked (so far...).
Then, Ctrl-Alt-F8 took me to a black screen - keyboard num-lock light
went out, tried every key combo I could think of to get some response,
even a num-lock or caps-lock light would have been good, but the only
thing that worked was Ctrl-Alt-Del to reboot - with the screen dead, the
system appeared to shut down properly- plenty of drive action - but no
reboot - so I had to use the power switch (shades of M$ Windows...).
When I restarted the box, it reported that the disc was not unmounted
cleanly & did its checking - finally giving a status of "passed".
Everything works normally now, except that when I'm logged into KDE as
me, no icons & I can't execute programs - the panel & K menus are there,
but only a few items (like logout) work. I can't open a terminal,
refresh icons/desktop or anything. logging out & logging back in using
gnome instead of KDE works (thats how I'm sending this) but I prefer
KDE. Kde still works if I log in as root, just not as me!
Well, I hate to admit it, but I don't even know where to start looking,
so can someone please tell me what to do to get things back!
Trevor
