Thus said Dan Egli on Mon, 22 Sep 2014 03:57:25 -0700: > Is there a way to have multiple X sessions running on the machine at > the same time, each tied to a different VT?
Yes. Though how you accomplish it might vary from distro to distro. I currently have both XDM running on one VT and GDM running on another. XDM can actually open multiple X servers (GDM probably can too, but it lacks useful documentation). I have the following in my /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers for XDM: :1 local /usr/bin/X :1 vt8 -nolisten tcp GDM defaults to :0 on vt7 so I get GDM on vt7 and XDM on vt8. To run both GDM and XDM concurrently I had to tell XDM to ignore the fact that GDM is configured as the default in /etc/init.d/xdm: HEED_DEFAULT_DISPLAY_MANAGER=false Then there's always startx if you prefer to not use a login manager. Andy -- TAI64 timestamp: 4000000054205c2d /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
