[lug] Using consoles

[llornkcor]

the best place to read about ANY commands is by typing
man command
where command is a command you are looking to read about. like
man bash
will get you to the bash man page, or
man emacs
will let you read the emacs man page.
Of course, I learned alot of the linux/unix commands from a book called
Linux in a nutshell, or something like that. Very useful book !!


| Thanks - this is what I wanted.  It all works and I can switch between
| the sessions - just what I wanted.  I have to use C-A-f7/f8 rather
| than A-f7/f8, I do not know why that is.
|
| Where can I read about this console stuff?
|
| dajo
|
|   >>>>> "David" == David Outteridge <dajo at privatei.com> writes:
|
|   David> Yesterday, whilst logged in as myself, I wanted to log in as
|   David> root.  Normally I would use su, but this time I did not know
|   David> how to start up all the stuff I needed so I wanted to log in
|   David> from the login prompt.  I used C-A-f2 and got a login prompt.
|   David> The login was ok.  But when I tried to start X it did not work
|   David> for the reason that display 0 was already in use.  Can anyone
|   David> explain this a little, please?  How do I do it?  Can it be
|   David> done?
|
|   sure. You can run as many X sessions as you have memory for. ;)
|
|   When you start the second X session for root, make sure you specify a
|   new display...ie:
|
|   xinit -- :1
|   or
|   startx -- :1
|
|   The -- tells it to pass the next stuff off to the X server, in this
|   case a request that it use display ":1" instead of the default ":0"
|   which is already in use by your other session.
|
|   It should then appear, and will likely be on alt-f8 (the console after
|   your other X session at any rate.
|
|   David> dajo
|
|   kevin
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