Having X on two virtual terminals

clum · 2004-07-04T10:46:12

I was debugging a full-screen game with emacs and gdb. I was thinking that things would be much easier (read: possibler) if I was running the actual game in another virtual terminal. Unfortunately, I don't know enough about X to figure out how to do this. Does anyone know how? I used to have an older distribution (I can't remember which one) which had an option somewhere to open a new XServer in a different vt. Even if I managed that, how would I get my program to open in that VT instead of the current? I use SDL and OpenGL combo. I noticed that the Ctrl-Alt-F keys work to change terminals when running my program (which is how I manage to get out of sticky situation sometimes with gdb - Ctrl-Alt-F2 killall gdb), but not any of my WM's (Ion) keys bound for window management.