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My main display is 0, running on terminal tty7, started automatically at boot time.

I switch to terminal tty2, start another X server as display 1 (xinit -- :1).

I can run programs from the X terminal and they are shown on display 1 (in tty2) ... so far so good.

Problem is, display 0 on tty7 is persistent (I can switch in and out of tty7 and my desktop is always there) but when I switch out of tty2 and back again, display 1 has stopped, just the normal black console.

Is it possible for me to make display 1 persistent so I can switch in and out of it ?

I am running Ubuntu 14.04 with Xfce.

Eliah Kagan
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hatterman
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Display :1 is running on "TTY8".

It's not actually a TTY, but Control+Alt+F8 will get you there.

Oli
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