Running Multiple Sessions in Linux
Monday, March 24th, 2008
You might have noticed there is an entry in your KDE and Gnome menu called “Start New Session” ( In some distros “Switch User” ). I will try to explain a few things about this feature.
You can, at any time, do Ctrl+Alt+F1 ( to F6 ) to get a text console you could log in as another user ( also as root ) to perform needed tasks and at the same time have your X running under Ctrl+Alt+F7. So switching up and down between the X session and the text session was easy as pressing a few keys on your keyboard.