Suspend/Resume X sessions?

[Madison Kelly]

John Van Ostrand wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 14:18 -0500, William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
>> Is it possible to log out of an X session, keeping everything active,
>> but making the machine available for someone else, and then later, log
>> back in to the same state?
> 
> That's one of the reasons for VNC and running your X Session on a
> server.
> 
> Another option is to use a second X Session (on Ctrl-Alt-F8.) Newer
> distros like Ubunto support this and apparently it's easy to setup on
> any distro if you don't mind a command line.
> 
> I had the (mis)fortune of working with SunRay terminals and they have
> that functionality too, with smart cards none-the-less.
> 

For reference, pop open a normal shell (<ctrl>+<alt>+{F1...F6}) and, as 
the user you want to run the X session as, enter "$ startx -- :1" (where 
':1' is session '1', the default being ':0', and ':2' would open a third 
server, etc).

It is RAM intensive though... but I do it on my P3 1GHz/512MB laptop on 
occasion with minimal issue on Debian and Ubuntu.

HTH

Madison

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