Re: keep x session open

[Kent West]

techlists wrote:

On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 23:46, Kent West wrote:
 

techlists wrote:
   

I am running Sid with KDE, and was wondering if I am logged in and have
some programs running, is there a way for someone else to log into x on
the same terminal, without shutting down the programs I have running?
that way when they are finished, I can re-log in and continue where I
left with the programs that I originally had still open and running.
     

Then press Ctrl-Alt-F2 to switch to virtual terminal #2. From there, 
have the second user log in. After the user has logged in, have him 
enter "startx -- :1". This will start a second instance of X on 
(probably) terminal 8 (whereas your is (probably) on terminal 7). You 
can then hotswitch between the two sessions with Ctrl-Alt-F7 and 
Ctrl-Alt-F8.
   

This seems to work well, but what about sound?  In my experience opening
up a second x session on a different Virt-terminal, the first session
has the sound card, and will not work on the second opened x-session.
 

I _think_ that newer/better sound cards can handle multiple requests, 
and/or that sound daemons like esound or artsd can handle it. But I'm 
not sure.

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Kent
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