on Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 10:25:59PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > A]] I tried startx -l:8 for getting > XWindows onto tty8 and then Ctrl+Alt+F8 to get there > > Result : > (1) If the machine has not put up XWindows by default, then it comes > on tty7 , which is the default. > > (2) if XWindows comes up as default , then this shows an error , > saying that display is already active on 0. > > Then I did from another user's shell : > startx -l:10 for getting > XWindows onto tty9 and then Ctrl+Alt+F9 to get there. > > Result : this shows an error , saying that display is already active > on 0. > > > I remember some member of the list confidently assuring members that > you can open XWindows display on more than one virtual terminal .
Your invocations should be:
$ startx -- :<display> vtXX
e.g.:
$ startx -- :1 vt8
For more info, see man (1) XFree86.
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