From: Dave Feustel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > What I dn't yet quite grasp is why there cannot be multiple > independent > instances of kde running, each one attached to a different > virtual terminal > (C0-C3) on the same computer. Then I could be logged on as > two different > users simultaneously, switching back and forth between > screens using the > ctl-alt-fcn keys. If this is not possible right now on > OpenBSD, it might be an > interesting project.
Because, to my knowledge, X doesn't work that way. You run startx on a virtual terminal. Yes, the command runs from that tty, but your X session is now bound to the video adapter and is running on e.g. tty7 - or whatever it is you get to when you hit ctrl+alt+7, or whichever one you go to to get to X. So now X is "bound" to your adapter, and you are running KDE from there. You want to launch KDE again? It tries to fire up X and can't because X is already running. I think of it like trying to bind the same TCP port to an interface twice on the same IP address. If you start httpd on 127.0.0.1:80, you can't have a second httpd running on 127.0.0.1:80; you've already tied that port up and you need a new source address (e.g. 192.168.0.1) or another tcp port (e.g. 81) in order to start another httpd up. I'm no X guru by any means, but in my limited experience using it it seems like you must have multiple adaptors to start multiple X sessions. DS
