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On a default Ubuntu (15.04) installation, We have 7 TTYs that we can switch with Ctrl+Alt+F1 (or F2 - F7), where TTY1-6 are terminals and TTY7 is the graphical X session.

I would like to have more than one TTY with graphical login, so e.g. make TTY6 an additional GUI terminal.

Is this possible and if yes, how do I set it up and are there restrictions (like don't log into the same account graphically twice)? And when I manually start an x session in a TTY, how do I quit that graphical session again afterwards and revert the TTY back to a terminal?

Byte Commander
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  • http://askubuntu.com/a/631052/158442? Or do you want to run a display manager in each TTY? – muru Jul 12 '15 at 15:40
  • Take a look Here. – Mitch Jul 12 '15 at 15:41
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    I just run startx $(which gnome-shell) in any tty. – Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy Jul 12 '15 at 17:51
  • @Serg If I try this, I get a desktop without Unity. I experienced an error a few days ago that Unity stopped starting and I had to reinstall and reenable it in CCSM. Will I have to do this every time? Besides, it does not work as it should, Unity seems not to restart but crash. In TTY7, everything is ok again though. – Byte Commander Jul 12 '15 at 18:08
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    @ByteCommander well, yeah, because in that command I basically call Gnome desktop. Tried replacing that with Unity ? like startx $(which unity) ? I've got 15.04 , so trying to start unity like that kinda breaks, because I don't see indicators in the upper panel, but on my other laptop with 14.04 it worked alright. – Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy Jul 12 '15 at 18:14
  • @Serg Too bad I actually use 15.04 and therefore am also missing my panel indicators... If you find any fix for this, you know who to tell! ;) – Byte Commander Jul 12 '15 at 19:29
  • And unity looks really bad. It got some kind of Windows 98 theme.... – Byte Commander Jul 14 '15 at 13:42

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