[plug] X question

[Russ Powers]

Go into a terminal:
   CTRL-ALTF2

Log in as the new user.

enter:
  startx -- :1

A new x should start up.

CTRL-ALT_F7 and CTRL-ALT-F8 to switch between them.

On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 01:11 pm, Jim Householder wrote:
> Hi
>
> For a while I had the Xandros distro (debian based) running.  It seems to
> be a nice users' distro, but I dropped it due to a number of things that
> were awkward or not supported.
>
> One of the things I really liked, though, was the ability to have 2
> accounts logged in and switch between them.  Nothing new you say?  Xandros
> allows both to be using X.  I was able to switch from A to B without having
> to stop everything on A and start(x) from scratch on B, etc.
>
> Is this feature specific to Xandros, or is there a package I can install? 
> It really is quite handy.
>
> Thanks
> Jim
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Regards,
Russ