Silly Question - New Login
Berna Massingill
bmassing at cs.trinity.edu
Sat Aug 6 10:39:42 UTC 2005
>> Dotan Cohen wrote:
[ snip ]
>> >That was a rather interesting post to read. But I've been googling for
>> >some time now, as you interested me in what you had said about running
>> >multiple guis in different consoles. I would like to have F7 and F8 as
>> >two seperate gui's. How does one accomplish that? Thanks.
>> >
>> >Dotan Cohen
>> >http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/artist_albums/402/pink_floyd.php
>> >Pink Floyd Song Lyrics
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>> Applications --> System tools -->> New Login
>>
>> This will let you open different users for different consoles. There are
>> items like sound that don't work wel on the new login, but it is handy
>> for running KDE or XFCE in one console and Gnome in the other.
The command-line version of this (for those who are into such things)
might be "X :1 -query <machinename> -once".
I say "might be" because I just tried this on my newly-installed FC4
system, and got (1) a blank screen with a little X in the middle,
and (2) error messages when I went back to the original screen
(with control-alt-F7). I also tried it from a text console, with
the same result.
So I tried your GNOME-GUI way, described above, and that didn't work
either, though the symptoms were slightly different -- blank screen with
a cursor at the top, very similar to what was happening with the text
consoles before I applied the "copy libvgahw.a from an FC3 system"
fix discussed recently in this list.
Hm. Anyone know what's wrong? This can be a useful thing to have.
(Possibly the problem with my command-line way is that I don't know how
to properly specify <machinename>, and/or there are firewall issues.
I've tried "localhost" to start another session on the same machine,
without success. I've also tried the name of a remote host to which I
*should* have access through its firewall (I can connect via "ssh"),
but also without success. When I've done this before, the remote
machine and mine were both part of a local network, so there were no
firewall issues.)
-- blm
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