On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 04:06:27PM -0700, Justin Churchey wrote:
> Hey everybody,
>
> When I used SuSE 8.2 last summer, a neat feature was
> the ability to hit Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to bring up
> another login screen so that another user could log
> into the box w/out terminating another users session.
> Then, to bring up the various different sessions you
> could hit Ctrl+Alt+F<session #> to switch b/t the
> different logged in users.
As setup Ctrl+Alt+Backspace kills the X server.
But CTL+ALT+Fn may be what you are thinking about.
Inspect /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf at about line 344 for something like this.
[servers]
# These are the standard servers. You can add as many you want here
# and they will always be started. Each line must start with a unique
# number and that will be the display number of that server. Usually just
# the 0 server is used.
0=Standard
#1=Standard
If you uncomment #1=Standard and restart gdm (the X server) you will
have two X-servers. After the edits it looks like this.
[servers]
# These are the standard servers. You can add as many you want here
# and they will always be started. Each line must start with a unique
# number and that will be the display number of that server. Usually just
# the 0 server is used.
0=Standard
1=Standard
#2=Standard
Note that more than two can be started but do not get carried away.
Linux starts logins on a list of virtual terminals. Each can be
accessed CTL+ALT+Fn where n is a number 1 through about 8. By default
the X server is started at vt7, and if you make the above change an X
server will be started at vt7 and vt8. CTL+ALT+F7 will get the first,
and CTL+ALT+F8 will get the second. See the lines in /etc/inittab
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1
...
6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6
which I suspect set the stage that puts the first X server on vt7.
Some things are well not shared ... sound is one.
I do not know how all the display drivers in the universe work with
multiple X servers. I would not leave a stress test running on one
and attempt to do remote virtualized brain surgery on a real person in
the other.
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