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_Marco_

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Registered: 2008-04-21

Posts: 242

virtual consoles question

hi, I'm aware this is a probably dumb question but ...
in my installation there are only 7 VC (virtual console), trying to launch gdm and slim to login into 2 different windows manager (I'm experimenting with compiz fusion standalone and sometimes I need to see how openbox works in the same condition) happened the warning/error message "VC7 is already in use, do you want to use another VC? yes/no" (this is not the exact message) I tried to launch it on VC8 but on that VC I have a "black screen with a flashing underscore" where I cannot write nothing.
now my question is, is it possible to have more X session opened in more than one virtual console (and so enable more than 7 VC)?
I'm running a 1 year old installation of arch linux so it's possible I broke something or something has been modified in new installers..
Thanks for your help

carlocci

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From: Padova - Italy

Registered: 2008-02-12

Posts: 368

Re: virtual consoles question

of course, you can
try:
startx -- :1

and search for multiple x sessions

_Marco_

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Registered: 2008-04-21

Posts: 242

Re: virtual consoles question

you're right it works great
(some application explode,example nitrogen (:D), but it's an app's problem ^^)
thanks for the tip (grazie!)

Last edited by _Marco_ (2008-05-10 16:24:03)

carlocci

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From: Padova - Italy

Registered: 2008-02-12

Posts: 368

Re: virtual consoles question

I don't know what nitrogen is, but you can try exporting DISPLAY=:1 before launching it

carlocci ~  $ DISPLAY=:1 nitrogen

prego

_Marco_

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Registered: 2008-04-21

Posts: 242

Re: virtual consoles question

nitrogen is an application to draw a wallpaper when using only a window manager.
Thanks for the "DISPLAY=:1" tip, I tried it but unfortunately it doesn't solve my ""problem"" (actually )
I'll play some more with it tomorrow..

anyway,in case someone know how nitrogen works, running  "DISPLAY=:1 nitrogen --restore" or "nitrogen --restore" I get:
"Couldn't find group for :1.0."
"Could not get bg info"

p.s. it doesn't work with openbox too so it's not compiz standalone related
Thanks in advance

Redroar

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Registered: 2008-03-17

Posts: 200

Re: virtual consoles question

I never got nitrogen to work. Try feh....worked for me. It's not like it matters much, once you get it into whatever autostart shell script you're using then it doesn't really matter.

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_Marco_

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Registered: 2008-04-21

Posts: 242

Re: virtual consoles question

@Redroar, I installed feh and it works great!
I searched a lot on google and there is almost nothing regard that error of nitrogen,
considering its lack of documentation too I think I'll stick with feh.
Thanks for your help!
bye