On 22 Nov 1999, Mike Werner wrote: > Anthony Campbell wrote: > <snip> > > This gives me 5 terminals. X comes out in the terminal "above" the one > > you use for startx; I do this in the last terminal (5) and X is in 6. I > > believe it is possible to have 64 terminals in all. > > Not quite. X will come out in the VC one higher than the last one that is > defined in your inittab, no matter which VC you do startx from. For > example, I often do startx from VC 1. And since I have 6 VCs defined in > my inittab X comes up in VC 7. In fact, no matter which VC I do startx > from X will come up in VC 7. > > I'm not sure what happens if, for instance, one user was to startx from, > say, VC 1 and then another user, for example root, was to do startx from > another VC. Would that start another X on VC 8? I think I'll have to try > that next time I'm on my slink box. > --
Yes, quite right. What I was thinking of was that the terminal you start from is effectively out of use as long as X is running because it contains the starting-up stuff. You can also kill X from that terminal. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.1 (Windows-free zone) Book Reviews: http://www.pentelikon.freeserve.co.uk/bookreviews/ "It's no go the Yogi Man, it's no go Blavatsky" - Louis MacNeice
