CentOS - Jul 2005 - Running another gnome or kde on virtual console

Hi,

I'm still new in linux world and CentOS is my 2nd linux desktop I ever used
( have used it for month now, before using Ubuntu for 2 days ), so please gave
me a little favor on it :)

What I need to do is to have my virtual console that can also run gnome or kde,
so I can have different windows on different virtual console. After googling, I
found the qingy that just fit for my need.

I try to install qingy ( http://qingy.sourceforge.net ) on my desktop by
following the manual at qingy site with no luck :( after googling for the more
installations howto, I found that most of it is for gentoo linux.. does anybody
here with success story of it want to share info on installing it?

I have install directfb as required by qingy but when I run fbset, I got error
about /dev/fb0 can't opening.. if I follow the manual on qingy site,
it's should list the display mode.. anybody can brief me what the error is
all about and how I could create the /dev/fb0 file?

When I go to virtual console ( alt+ctrl+f2 ), I got messages :
Warning : cannot get console framebuffer resolutions!
Unrecoverable error: reverting to text mode!

Anyone have any ideal what that means? 

I have set :
video=vesafb:ywrap mtrr vga=0x317 
at grub configurations after the kernel statement, anyone have any suggestions?

Anyone please shed me some light on this, and thanks in advances,
If anyone can guide me on howto to have X running on virtual-console, I really
appreciate it and sorry for my bad english

Regards.
ijez

On 7/30/05, ijez <ijez at time.net.my> wrote:
> I'm still new in linux world and CentOS is my 2nd linux desktop I ever
used ( have used it for month now, before using Ubuntu for 2 days ), so please
gave me a little favor on it :)
> What I need to do is to have my virtual console that can also run gnome or
kde, so I can have different windows on different virtual console. After
googling, I found the qingy that just fit for my need.
Try:
1. Xnest -query localhost :1
2. Do Ctr+Alt+F2 login as user and startx -- :1

HTH
-- 
Sudev Barar
Learning Linux

ijez wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm still new in linux world and CentOS is my 2nd linux desktop I ever
used ( have used it for month now, before using Ubuntu for 2 days ), so please
gave me a little favor on it :)
> 
> What I need to do is to have my virtual console that can also run gnome or
kde, so I can have different windows on different virtual console. After
googling, I found the qingy that just fit for my need.
> 
> I try to install qingy ( http://qingy.sourceforge.net ) on my desktop by
following the manual at qingy site with no luck :( after googling for the more
installations howto, I found that most of it is for gentoo linux.. does anybody
here with success story of it want to share info on installing it?
> 
> I have install directfb as required by qingy but when I run fbset, I got
error about /dev/fb0 can't opening.. if I follow the manual on qingy site,
it's should list the display mode.. anybody can brief me what the error is
all about and how I could create the /dev/fb0 file?
> 

This can be done without any additional software.  The Xnest solution
already posted will work as advertised.

Xnest is attached to the X server running on :0.  An alternative is
to run another X server on :1 (or :2, :3, etc)

To start gnome on :1 -
   1. Hit ctrl-alt-F2 to get to virtual console 2
   2. Run xinit /usr/bin/gnome-session -- :1
   3. Use ctrl-alt-F7 to get to :0 and ctrl-alt-F8 to get to :1 , etc

To start kde on :1 :  1
. Hit ctrl-alt-F2 to get to virtual console 2
   2. Run xinit /usr/bin/startkde -- :1
   3. Use ctrl-alt-F7 to get to :0 and ctrl-alt-F8 to get to :1 , etc

I can't say whether this solution is preferable to the Xnest
solution or not.  I guess one advantage would be that each
desktop is more isolated since they are not ultimately sharing
the same X server.  I'd be interested if anyone has thoughts
about why one is better than the other.

-Mark