I believe that the tty2 could be written as tty[1-6] (where [1-6] means to write in any one of tty1 ...) and still have the same effect. It it the vt7 and vt8 that tells X where to place the XWindow. I think I am correct in saying that the tty1 is telling X where to launch it from. It would be Alt-f8 to get to the screen. Provinding that X is properly configured the vt7 and vt8 could be left out, but it's safer to have them there for sanity's sake. The msg logs issues could be important. It might be that only the messages from tty1 are being recorded. It's interesting stuff and a worthwhile research topic. I'll try the tty1 and tty2 methods tonight and report back my findings.

Brian Densmore

-----Original Message----- From: Brian Kelsay

So, for clarity sake, the :0 is the first Xserver instance and it is being attached to the 7th virtual terminal (vt7). The :1 is the 2nd Xserver and it is attached to the 8th virtual terminal. Or is it tty1 and 2 respectively? I'm curious if he would be able to hit Alt-f8 and view the 2nd xserver session or would it be Alt-f2? If I am incorrect then please correct my logic. Would he actually be able to view the xserver session or only get the msg logs that went to the terminal before the xserver launched?

Just some idle thoughts.

Brian Kelsay

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Jeremy Turner <> 11/30/04 01:46PM >>>

On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 11:13:02AM -0600, Brian Densmore wrote:

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I'm running kdm and would like to know if anyone is running more than one desktop simultaneously?

Check the /etc/kdm/kde3/kdm/Xservers file. I have a line that says:

:0 local@tty1 /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp vt7

My guess is that you would add a line just below it that says:

:1 local@tty2 /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp vt8