[Techtalk] running multiple concurrent sessions

[Carla Schroder]

On Tuesday 28 May 2002 10:49 am, Mandi wrote:
> On Tue, 28 May 2002, Carla Schroder wrote:
> > I've been playing with running multiple concurrent sessions on one
> > machine. It is easy and fun, at least in console mode. (RH 7.2) I can
> > open six, Alt+F1- F6, any combination of users I want. but when I try to
> > open an x session it crashes as soon as I switch away.
> >
> > For example, at Alt+F6 I'll fire up KDE. Works fine until I switch to one
> > of the others, for example Ctrl+Alt+F1. when I come back it is crashed.
> > Same for Gnome and XFCE. Should be plenty of hardware resources, Duron
> > 800/256 RAM.
>
> Okay.  your first X mode console will appear on CTRL-ALT-F7.
>
> If you want more, try X :1  and play with that.  It'll start a new X
> console on CTRL-ALT-F8.  you should be able to use the startx command:
>
> startx -- :1
>
> to do it too.
>
> F8-F12 can be assigned, starting at :0.
>
> Hope that's what you're looking for.
>
> --mandi

Well here's what I did. Logged into the console at Alt+F1 - typed
startx -- :1
Which started KDE. 
>From KDE, Ctrl+Alt+F1 took me back. 
Alt+F7 returned to KDE.

It works, but it doesn't quite sound like what you said. Just hitting Alt+F7 
or Ctrl+Alt+F7 does nothing, startx -- :1 seems to be the magic command to 
get things rolling.

This is the only doc I've found, and it's not real helpful, 
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO.html#toc7

thanks very much for the fast help!
Carla