>> Dotan Cohen wrote: [ snip ] >> >That was a rather interesting post to read. But I've been googling for >> >some time now, as you interested me in what you had said about running >> >multiple guis in different consoles. I would like to have F7 and F8 as >> >two seperate gui's. How does one accomplish that? Thanks. >> > >> >Dotan Cohen >> >http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/artist_albums/402/pink_floyd.php >> >Pink Floyd Song Lyrics >> > >> > >> > >> >> Applications --> System tools -->> New Login >> >> This will let you open different users for different consoles. There are >> items like sound that don't work wel on the new login, but it is handy >> for running KDE or XFCE in one console and Gnome in the other. The command-line version of this (for those who are into such things) might be "X :1 -query <machinename> -once". I say "might be" because I just tried this on my newly-installed FC4 system, and got (1) a blank screen with a little X in the middle, and (2) error messages when I went back to the original screen (with control-alt-F7). I also tried it from a text console, with the same result. So I tried your GNOME-GUI way, described above, and that didn't work either, though the symptoms were slightly different -- blank screen with a cursor at the top, very similar to what was happening with the text consoles before I applied the "copy libvgahw.a from an FC3 system" fix discussed recently in this list. Hm. Anyone know what's wrong? This can be a useful thing to have. (Possibly the problem with my command-line way is that I don't know how to properly specify <machinename>, and/or there are firewall issues. I've tried "localhost" to start another session on the same machine, without success. I've also tried the name of a remote host to which I *should* have access through its firewall (I can connect via "ssh"), but also without success. When I've done this before, the remote machine and mine were both part of a local network, so there were no firewall issues.) -- blm
