On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 13:30 -0800, John Thomas wrote:
Ctrl-Alt-F7 automatically starts with a gdm greeter. I would like Ctrl-Alt-F8 to be the same, but I cannot figure it out. Would you offer some tips?
The purpose is to allow others to simply switch over and log into a machine without bothering the current X session and/or leaving me logged in the F8 so X is running and waiting for me.
Do you mean you want to have another X session started and waiting for another login by another user ID?
You want it on boot or just under some circumstances? I have this in my root user bin and run it when I want. This is on my CentOS 4.7. If you are on 5.x, it will be a little different.
# cat bin/XAgain xdm -server ":1 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :1"
I haven't run it for a _long_ time. If things changed since then, the above may not be exactly right now.
HTH