On Thu 06 Nov 2014 at 12:49:45 -0500, Eric Sharkey wrote: > On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 4:14 AM, Andrei POPESCU <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > A different method to achieve the same thing would be to use Ctrl-Alt-Fx > > to switch to a console, login and start another X instance with > > > > startx -- :1 > > You don't even need the "-- :1" any more. startx is now smart enough > to find an unused display on its own.
Nowadays (testing/unstable) a simple 'startx' doesn't even have to hunt around for an unused display because it will always bring X up on the tty it is started from. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]

