On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 5:34 AM, Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > On Thu 06 Nov 2014 at 12:49:45 -0500, Eric Sharkey wrote: > >> On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 4:14 AM, Andrei POPESCU <andreimpope...@gmail.com> >> 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.
A display and a tty aren't quite the same thing. It still has to figure out what display (what you see when you run "echo $DISPLAY") to use. And starting up X on the text tty is really awful in my opinion. I liked it much better when 1-6 was reserved for text and 7-12 for graphics. How do you even see console messages now? Eric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CAC73aR1AsD4hbNUOYew9-zdW2HgG93=5mekfbfo2phacayo...@mail.gmail.com
