Solved: how to have more than one Gnome desktop on various tty's

[Tapas Mishra]

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Tapas Mishra <mightydreams at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am having a Dell Laptop and most of the time I would be in GUI.
> I switched to another console via pressing Ctrl+Fn+Alt+F3
> and got a black screen.
> Upto here it is all correct.
> I want to have here a gui running and at the same time the gui which is on
> Ctrl+Fn+Alt+F7 also keep running.
>
> For other desktops the key combinations would not include the Fn key above
>
> So I used startx :2
> startx -- :2
> startx -:2
> and various other possibilities.
> But each time it failed.
> I searched it
> http://www.google.com/search?q=more+than+one+gui+startx+lucid&btnG=Search&hl=en&sa=2
> but I have not got any useful results out of it.
> Can any one let me know what is the hack for doing above.
>


Ok this is solved I had to add sudo to startx and now it works.
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