On Monday 23 September 2002 06.03, Jim Cunning wrote:
Close, but not quite correct. This command will start a new X server on _display_ :8.0. It's only coincidental that the server is also started on _console_ 8.
Not really coincidental. It will start on the next available tty. You can edit /etc/inittab and remove a few mingetty:s, then you can get the new X sessions on, for instance, tty2, tty3 and so forth, if you only feel you need one text console.
There's no need to specify display :8.0 for the second X session, since entering "WINDOWMANAGER=gnome startx" should work just fine. You will get a second session, using display :1.0 on virtual console 8.
I'm pretty sure you have to give a new display name. When I run it it just says "server already running on display :0". I think you have to give at least :1 or :0.1 or something. //Anders