starting new session / login screen from terminal

Cinematography · 01-11-2006, 10:58 AM

Is there a way to start new session / bring up the login screen from the terminal? What could I type into the terminal to bring that screen up?

Bruce Hill · 01-11-2006, 11:18 AM

If I understand your question, you should issue Ctrl+Alt+F2 through F6, and F7 after you finished with that VT to return to where you started. But that is while you are in X to get a term, so not sure if I answered you or not.

Cinematography · 01-11-2006, 02:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chinaman

If I understand your question, you should issue Ctrl+Alt+F2 through F6, and F7 after you finished with that VT to return to where you started. But that is while you are in X to get a term, so not sure if I answered you or not.

Kind of sort of. What I'm trying to do is make a button in fluxbox that'll go to the graphical login screen so I can start a new session, and to make this button I'll need to know how to start that graphical login screen through the terminal.

Bruce Hill · 01-11-2006, 02:34 PM

So you want to be in Fluxbox, and from there to start another X session?

Sometimes I'm just slow, mate. I issued Ctrl+Alt+F2 and then logged in as
another user, and then issued "startx" but it wouldn't let me. This error:

Code:

Welcome to Linux 2.6.15 (tty2)

silas login: bruce
Password:
Linux 2.6.15.
Last login: Mon Jan  9 21:44:22 -0600 2006 on tty1.
No mail.
bruce@silas:~$ startx

Fatal server error:
Server is already active for display 0
        If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock
        and start again.


Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
         at http://wiki.X.Org
 for help.


^X
xinit:  unexpected signal 2.

However, I'm still wet behind the ears, and someone like
Tinkster or Alien Bob who are smarter Slackers might see this.

Perhaps you can open a X server on another display?

bosewicht · 01-11-2006, 02:39 PM

it would be something like
startx -- :1

It's a 1, because startx is short for: startx -- :0

Cinematography · 01-11-2006, 02:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chinaman

So you want to be in Fluxbox, and from there to start another X session?

Sometimes I'm just slow, mate.

It's okay. I didn't explain it right. I didn't even know what xdm was until a minute ago.

I want to make a menu entry that starts XDM so I can start a new session using a graphical interface and not in the ctrl-alt-f3 text screen.

Cinematography · 01-11-2006, 03:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bosewicht

it would be something like
startx -- :1

It's a 1, because startx is short for: startx -- :0

Doing that brought this error:

Quote:

auth: creating new authority file /home/me/.serverauth.3076

Fatal server error:
Server is already active for display 0
If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock
and start again.

bosewicht · 01-11-2006, 03:07 PM

the error is for the first X session 0. so you type ctrl+f# and you are at a new screen. Then you login and type startx -- :1 and it throws that error?

Cinematography · 01-11-2006, 03:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bosewicht

the error is for the first X session 0. so you type ctrl+f# and you are at a new screen. Then you login and type startx -- :1 and it throws that error?

I just tried startx -- :1 in Kanotix and it worked just fine. It logged into KDE perfectily. And when I finally got it to work in Kubuntu, all I got was an X mouse icon and a gray background. But that's okay. Is there a way to start xdm from the terminal while logged in? I'm trying to make a 'start new session' menu button in fluxbox. I want to make a button that when clicked, it'll take you to xdm (the graphical login screen).

bosewicht · 01-11-2006, 04:29 PM

I know it's possible, but not really sure with xdm. I would search thru here and maybe google around. maybe add something like
7:23:respawn:/usr/bin/X11/xdm
to /etc/inittab
and removing the xdm script symlink from your
default runlevel directory.

Again I'm not too sure, but something like this should work

ksyrx · 10-10-2019, 11:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bosewicht

I know it's possible, but not really sure with xdm. I would search thru here and maybe google around. maybe add something like
7:23:respawn:/usr/bin/X11/xdm
to /etc/inittab
and removing the xdm script symlink from your
default runlevel directory.

Again I'm not too sure, but something like this should work

Yes, xdm behavior some strange for me, when i'm create new session with startx -- :1...
In short, linux is hang on tight.