On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Tapas Mishra <mightydreams@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am having a Dell Laptop and most of the time I would be in GUI.
> I switched to another console via pressing Ctrl+Fn+Alt+F3
> and got a black screen.
> Upto here it is all correct.
> I want to have here a gui running and at the same time the gui which is on
> Ctrl+Fn+Alt+F7 also keep running.
>
> For other desktops the key combinations would not include the Fn key above
>
> So I used startx :2
> startx -- :2
> startx -:2
> and various other possibilities.
> But each time it failed.
> I searched it
> http://www.google.com/search?q=more+than+one+gui+startx+lucid&btnG=Searc h&hl=en&sa=2
> but I have not got any useful results out of it.
> Can any one let me know what is the hack for doing above.
>


Ok this is solved I had to add sudo to startx and now it works.
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On 30 November 2010 08:55, Tapas Mishra <mightydreams@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ok this is solved I had to add sudo to startx and now it works.

Erk, that doesn't sound wise. X and all your apps running as root.

Al.

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On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Alan Pope <popey@ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On 30 November 2010 08:55, Tapas Mishra <mightydreams@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Ok this is solved I had to add sudo to startx and now it works.
>
> Erk, that doesn't sound wise. X and all your apps running as root.
>
But without doing sudo it did not worked also.

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On 30 November 2010 14:30, Tapas Mishra <mightydreams@gmail.com> wrote:
> But without doing sudo it did not worked also.
>

That doesn't make using sudo right, it just means you've bypassed the
"problem diagnosis" stage and gone directly to the "hit it with a
hammer" stage.

I expect (but this is wild guesswork because you didn't provide any
logs at all of the startx) that the issue is because your user already
has an x session running. It's kinda unwise to have two x sessions
under the same account, modifying the same files. Traditionally most
people will have only one X session, a second one would be run as
another person (another family member for example) on a different tty.

Al.

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