On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 10:08:21AM -0400, Jim Cornette wrote: >> Berna Massingill wrote: >> [ snip ] >> >>>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. [ snip ] >> The properties in the command is the command "gdmflexiserver" on my >> computer. I ran this from the commandline and it brought up another >> screen for login on F8 While there was still a session on F7. This seems >> to be a function from gdm login manager. Do you remember doing anything special to enable this? I'm wondering why this (starting a second session as you described previously from a GNOME menu) would work for you and not for me. -- blm
