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coyotl wrote:https://journalxtra.com/linux/desktop/m ... ts-greedy/

virtual displays using virtual terminals. Have not tried this, no time now.

Atip wrote:That is what I do.
Let say you have opened xfce4
Then Ctrl-Alt-F2 gets you to the sonsole.
Login and type:

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startx /usr/bin/mate-session -- :2
Enter

Mate will come up.
To switch to xfce4 do Ctrl-Alt-F7
back to Mate
in my case Crl-Alt-F4, you have to find out sometimes it is Ctr-Alt-F8

So you can switch easily back and forth. My main desktop is fluxbox,
I have as well xfce4 and mate installed. The latter one I use seldom.

coyotl, Atip, thanks! This works great !

Like you, I need Ctrl-Alt-F4 to get back to Mate, rather than Ctrl-Alt-F8 as stated in the article. And, Ctrl-Alt-F5 and Ctrl-Alt-F6 (same with F9 through F12) give nothing but a completely blank screen. It is almost as though we have only three terminals, rather than six--but then why is the first desktop on F7, and the second on F4? Weird, but it works .