Running more than 2 desktop environment?

johnleeryan · 12-26-2004, 01:32 AM

Can i run more than 2 desktop environment at the same time?

ToniT · 12-26-2004, 01:52 AM

yes.

Please, be more spesific on what you exactly are trying to do to get a more useful answer.
(Are you having eg. two monitors, two computers, two outputs in your graphcs card, connection to a TV, network-connection to an other machine. Or do you just mean to have two desktop-managers installed at the same time (eg KDE, Gnome), or different applications running using different libraries (QT,GTK))

johnleeryan · 12-26-2004, 01:58 AM

I mean 2 desktop managers running at the same time. KDE and GNOME.

ToniT · 12-26-2004, 02:43 AM

ok.

1) In one desktop.
Try eg. running command "kicker" when you are in gnome.

2) In separate desktops.
With something like "startx -- :1" you can start a new X session running into an other virtual console
(Commonly the first one starts in Ctrl-Alt-F7, second one ..F8 or ..F10.)

Why do you want to run two desktop managers at the same time?

manishsnehi · 12-27-2004, 10:17 PM

Not working man!!!

Ur "startx -- :1" command not working...

ToniT · 02-17-2005, 05:48 PM

Hmm.. works fine for me.