Thanks, I appreciate it.
On Wednesday 04 August 2004 10:29, D. Joe Anderson wrote: > On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 02:39:51AM -0700, Pete Hogan wrote: > > --- Kleer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But by saying "consoles", is that sort of like being in different work > > spaces? So I could load KDE on like F3, then load WindowMaker on F4, then > > load Gnome on F5? Then switch back and forth? > > > > Normally you have six virtual terminals, with X running on the > > seventh, so ctrl-alt-F1 through F6 will get you a login > > screen. X windows runs on tty7 by default no matter where it's > > started from. > > The cool thing is, this can all be changed. In KNOPPIX, for > instance, one only gets 4 virtual terminals with consoles, with > X running on a fifth one at F5. > > You can run multiple instances of X alongside each other, too. > For instance, with your default configuration of X running on > vt7, you can add a second instance of X (in most cases) by > switching to a different virtual terminal (say, Ctrl-Alt-F1) and > then issuing: > > startx -- :1 > > This should go to the virtual terminal on F8. > > Also, a minor point: To switch OUT of an instance of X, one > normally has to hit the Alt key in addition to Ctrl and the > function key to which you want to switch, say, Ctrl-Alt-F1 for > vt1. BUT, to switch amongst virtual terminals alone, you only > need use the Ctrl key with the function key: Ctrl-F1, Ctrl-F2, > etc. On my Debian 3.0r2 system, I can also cycle through the > non-X virtual terminals with Alt-<left arrow> and Alt-<right > arrow> > > I manage some shared lab machines in which we've got two or > three copies of the window manager configured to run X side by > side. This allows two or three different people to keep > themselves logged in with all their apps up and running the way > they like persistently, and yet still share the machine. > > This is also a wonderful way to try out a new version of X or of > an entire distribution: The current Debian 3.0r2 (aka "woody") > stable install I run is my default, but I can run the upcoming > "sarge" testing version of Debian in a chroot environment and > run X from within it on a separate virtual terminal. This is > excellent for testing it out, using the newer versions of > applications that are in it if I need them, and so on. There > are some signicant caveats to that which I won't go into here as > this is long enough already and that takes us off the subject of > virtual terminals. > > Having a whole slew of virtual terminals to roam around in is > among the top things I miss, functionally, when working on > proprietary OSes.
