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In Linux you can access up to 6 different terminals plus the X display.

In Mint, the shortcut for the X display is ctrl + alt + f8 instead of f7. Since f7 shows me log messages of VirtualBox and Timidity++, I'm assuming its the text version of the X display.

I'm using Cinnamon as a WM and would like to use Unity in a different terminal.

Is that even possible?

JP de la Torre
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Try as follows: go to your first free tty, say 1, by means of Ctrl+Alt+F1, login, then issue the command

 startx -- :1 vt9

The new X session will open in F9. And so on.

MariusMatutiae
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  • Apparently there are complications sometimes. For example, [this person](https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=113002) found that whether it worked correctly or not depended on the window manager he was using. Of course, he could have been doing other things wrong. – Jason C Jun 22 '14 at 21:20
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    @JasonC Right. But not a very knowledgeable person, IMHO. BTW, I use kdm. – MariusMatutiae Jun 22 '14 at 21:27
  • I'm not sure what else I should be doing. But my new X session is empty. Only the cursor and my background are on screen. Anyways, thanks a ton. It's a great start. – JP de la Torre Jun 24 '14 at 00:11