Re: [newbie] virtual terminals

[Axalon Bloodstone]

On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Richard Adams wrote:

> On Thu, 02 Sep 1999, you wrote:
> > so hiting alt-F[1-6] gives me six virtual terminals.  if i am running x,
> > then it lives on 7.  does eight or higher do anything?  i can flip to
> > them, but there is just a flashing cursor at the top of the screen.
> 
> Why not just configure youwindow manager kde for example to have
> eight  different screens alll in the one X session.
> 
> What is the use of  starting 2 different X servers on one machine.??

so you can log in as more than one user.
so you can run seperate windowmanagers as the same user

Theres lots of reasons
 
> > 
> > :P
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> Regards Richard
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