i have been looking into a way to start a second x on vt7. after booting i startx with "startx", then switch to vt2 with "ctrl+alt+F2" and log in. i try to start another x with "X :1" and it starts, i see the nvidia splash i get a black screen with a "x" for a mouse cursor just as i do when i start the first. but it never goes any further. KDE does not load or anything, just sits on that black screen. i know it can be done, was updating a friends FC6 machine and one of the updates caused a second x to start. however after rebooting that machine could not duplicate it. i am trying to do this on slackware 11, kde 3.5.4. i have followed the suggestions of other simular threads but get the same results no matter which method used.

-kaz

i usually do it like this
X :1| fluxbox -display :1&

or if I want kde:
X :1| urxvt -display :1&
and then in urxvt - #startkde&

that worked for starting fluxbox, but when i tried to start kde the first time it crashed kde all together, and every other time it did as before. would like to be able to start kde but fluxbox will work as well. thanks

-kaz

btw
there is an item in the root menu K->switch user->start new session
...it does the same in KDE