[SOLVED] no x as root user when you switch?

rubankumars · 08-24-2014, 10:45 AM

I logged as normal user.Then,used ctrl+alt+F5 to login as root and went into kde.But,when I pressed ctrl+alt+F7 to return to normal user account.Then pressed ctrl+alt+F5 to return to root.But no x only terminal with messages how to go to x?(I haven't logged out of root yet)

philanc · 08-24-2014, 11:56 AM

Your second X session is probably in VT8 (VT1 to VT6 usually offer a console login, then VT7 is used for the first X session, then VT8 for the 2nd X session, and so on.)

So Ctrl-Alt-F8 should bring you to your second X session, and Ctrl-Alt-F7 will go back to the first.

HTH