Re: Running multiple desktops...

From: Bill Day (billday_at_otecom.net)
Date: 08/15/05

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Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 10:09:07 -0400

    Yes, iwas starting manually before making it permanent. What I did was ctrl +
    alt + f1 logged in as her and then did startx -- :1 vt8 where it launched
    gnome(unfortunately to here displeasure). Will give the ~/.xinitrc a go.

    TIA

    On Monday August 15 2005 10:34 am, Kent West wrote:
    > Bill Day wrote:
    > >OK, while wifes computer is down and waiting on fan to arrive I decided to
    > >investigate the option of running multiple desktops on my computer on
    > >different vt's.
    > >I found this article:
    > >http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Configuring_X#Setting_up_Multiple_X_Se
    > >ssions_on_a_Single_Monitor to work however when I do it under her login it
    > > automagically brings up GNOME desktop, which she does not like, where do
    > > I make the change for her to get KDE desktop at?
    >
    > It's not clear from your posting whether you're manually starting the
    > second X session, or using a login manager. However, if you're doing it
    > manually, just create/edit the file ~/.xinitrc (while logged in as her)
    > and put the single line:
    >
    > startkde
    >
    > in the file. That should do the job.
    >
    > --
    > Kent 

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