Hi All, My first post as a Newbie so please be gentle.

Q1: I've installed and have happily been using the gentoo file manager. The executable is in the usual /usr/local/bin. When running as normal user it works fine. If I run KDE as root then clicking on the executable (or adding a link for it) results in nothing. If it was the other way round I'd suspect permissions but this way doesn't seem to make sense.

Q2: I've discovered the CTRL-ALT-F1(F2...F3) switching method but if I have a user account running KDE on F7 and try to run another KDE (under F2 for example) I get a server error. Is it possible to run two sessions of KDE (one user and one root) at the same time?


Andrew Jenkins.

A2:

startx -- :1

That runs X on X display 1, for switching use F8 I think, the one for F7 is X display 0.

wich display would it be for F6?

F1-F6 are commandline displays
F7 and F8 are the first and second graphical displays no matter which console they were started from.

Aeiri: You've lost me there. Just tried startx --:1 (and most other numbers) and I get the same "Fatal server error". startx --help just does the same. If I start the system up and use the tty1 terminal to sign in and type "KDE" (or startx) then my KDE gui runs on tty7 (CTRL-ALT-F7), I understand this is normal. Switching to tty2 - tty6 gives me a nice new login prompt but tty8 is a blank screen. If, as you say, 8 is the second gui terminal how do I get a second KDE (preferably running as root) onto it?

Hi there!

I think you missed the blank in the command:

startx -- :1 (there is a space after --)


smokylux

what application are you trying to run as root?