From: Michael Fischer <michael@visv.net> Date: Mon, 15 May 2023 19:44:08 -0400 I could *swear* I'd seen this was possible, but.... Already running lightdm->fvwm on vt7 (my usual setup). I would like to experiment with another windowmananger without having to drop my normal setup. I *thought* it was something like 1. Get into another vt, log in. 2. `startx -- :1` However when I tried that it trashed the X session on vt7. I had also thought it worked, but I can verify that it does the same thing (trash vt7) on openSUSE Leap 15.4. There was a time when I was using "startx" from vt0 because the DM wasn't working for me (because of a configuration glitch since fixed), and I thought X11 on vt7 was still working because the DM was still up after "startx," and I had been able to log in as root, but I realize now that I never tried logging in as root via DM while X11 was running on another console. Or do I need to reformulate this as "run multiple displaymanager on multiple VTs"? If so, how does one do that on SuSE? FWIW: PRETTY_NAME="openSUSE Leap 15.2" TIA, Michael -- Michael Fischer michael@visv.net From here, it doesn't look like X will let you do that. They're probably thinking, "Why would anyone want to use multiple WM's?" It wouldn't be the first time UI design fails for lack of imagination. -- Bob Rogers http://www.rgrjr.com/