Darian,
Did you look at the right place? I'm in tty6 and run the command. I have
to look for the X session in tty8. Not very beautiful, but it works.
What I'd *really* like would be to find X running in tty7 and tty8 after
a boot.
Regards
Gustav
Darian wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Gustav Schaffter wrote:
> > >
> > > > I'd like to run X as myself on tty7 and run X as a different user in
> > > > for instance tty8.
> > >
> > > Run:
> > >
> > > startx -- :1
> > >
> > > where 1 can actually be any number other than whatever's already
> > > running. :) The following function may suffice for you, if placed in your
> > > .bashrc file.
> > >
> > > x ()
> > > {
> > > case $(tty|head --bytes 8|tail --bytes 3) in
> > > tty)
> > > startx -- :$(tty|head --bytes 11|tail --bytes 2)
> > > ;;
> > > pts)
> > > echo "You can't run this from inside X Windows!"
> > > ;;
> > > esac
> > > }
>
> I must be doing something wrong because I cannot get multiple sessions running
> with the command up top there. I startx normally then hit ctrl-alt-f2 to login
> again, then type startx -- :1 and my system locks up tight. Any suggestions?
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Darian
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