[plug] X question

[Marc Wiriadisastra]

Russ Powers wrote:
> Go into a terminal:
>    CTRL-ALTF2
>

When I do that on my machine that I'm on not the server it crashes with 
the following error which is wierd.

codec_semaphone: Semaphone is not ready.

So there is obviously another reason why its not working possibly.



> 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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