X on virtual terminals

I want to have a graphical login on 2 or more virtual terminals.

Right now, for the second user I switch to the virtual terminal
via CNTL_ALT Function Key, log in as the second user at
the command line and run startx -- :,
which works, except when I go back to the first screen, then
return to the second screen, the graphics window has crashed,
but I still need to run CNTL-C then do the startx -- :vt# again.

How can I make both virtual terminals persistant and / or both
with login screens.

I want to do this on a SUSE system which defaults to KDE
and a RH enterprose system using GNOME.

Thanks in advance for the help.

Dave
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Re: X on virtual terminals

On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, in a new attempt to enlighten us, Kirkwood, David A wrote:

KDA> I want to have a graphical login on 2 or more virtual terminals.
[etc., etc.]
KDA> How can I make both virtual terminals persistant and / or both
KDA> with login screens.

Hi:

To do it with with gdm, edit the gdmrc config file (gdm.conf) and
search the section:

[servers]

there, add a line

1=standard
2=standard
...

for every display you want started.

You can also do it by changing the Xservers file (the standard
way to do it) somewhere in your /etc/ directory. kdm uses this way. In
this file, uncomment the lines you want:

:0 local@tty1 /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp :0 vt7
:1 local@tty2 /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp :1 vt8
...

And restart your display manager. Both ways should work, I guess.

Saludos

Javier

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