On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Miroslav Skoric wrote:
"Mikkel L. Ellertson" wrote:
The X session starts on the next free VC, not on the VC you type the
command to start X from. With a stock RedHat system, the first X
session startx on VC 7, the second on VC 8, the third on VC 9, etc.
So, with
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Miroslav Skoric wrote:
"Mikkel L. Ellertson" wrote:
The X session starts on the next free VC, not on the VC you type the
command to start X from. With a stock RedHat system, the first X
session startx on VC 7, the second on VC 8, the third on VC 9, etc.
So, with
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Martin Brown wrote:
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Miroslav Skoric wrote:
"Mikkel L. Ellertson" wrote:
The X session starts on the next free VC, not on the VC you type the
command to start X from. With a stock RedHat system, the first X
session startx on VC 7, the
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, John Aldrich wrote:
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Miroslav Skoric wrote:
"Mikkel L. Ellertson" wrote:
The X session starts on the next free VC, not on the VC you type the
command to start X from. With a stock RedHat system, the first X
session startx on VC 7, the
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
Actually, you're off one, I think CTRL+ALT+F1 gets you back to
the initial console which matches up to CTRL+ALT+F7. Thus CTRL+ALT+F2
goes to CTRL+ALT+F8, etc.
John
It depends on how the system is configured, and what
AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Starting X in a second console (SOLVED)
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
Actually, you're off one, I think CTRL+ALT+F1 gets you back to
the initial console which matches up to CTRL+ALT+F7. Thus CTRL+ALT+F2
goes to CTRL+ALT+F8, etc
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Jamin Collins wrote:
I'm running RH 6.2 with XFree86 4.0.1. What would be necessary to link the
normal (VC 7) X session with an actual console that will output program
error messages?
Well, it really WILL put the info onto console #1, or whichever
console you started it
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Jonathan Wilson wrote:
Well pal, that's never been the case on any of my systems ;-) and in fact
F8 through F12 are used for other things, like system messages
Ok. My question then, since you've piqued my curiosity, where does
your second X session start up? :-)
"Mikkel L. Ellertson" wrote:
The X session starts on the next free VC, not on the VC you type the
command to start X from. With a stock RedHat system, the first X
session startx on VC 7, the second on VC 8, the third on VC 9, etc.
So, with what you started, to get to the session you
