Re: Is it possible to start X Windows in multiple V/C .
On 19-Dec-97 Heikki Vatiainen wrote:
>Ralph Winslow <rjw@rjw.nac.net> wrote:
>
>> Yep, I'm absolutely certain - I entered:
>>
>> startx -- :1
>>
>> the only spaces were between x and -- and between -- and :1
>> three tokens, and I just re-tried to be absolutely certain. Oops,
>> this time I ran as root and voila, it worked! So I tried it again as
>> myself, and once again it failed, go figure!
>
>That's, hmm, interesting :) About the only thing I can think of now is the
>/tmp directory permissions. Since it works as root and not as an ordinary
>user maybe the /tmp permissions are messed up.
>
>It's also strange that the error message mentions display 0 even though you
>tell it to use display 1. Maybe for some strange reason you have startx in
>two different locations and the root user sees different startx than the
>non-root user. Command 'which startx' should tell where startx lives.
"which startx" as root says "/usr/bin/X11/startx" and as rjw says
"/home/rjw/bin/startx". "cat /home/rjw/bin/startx" shows:
#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/X11/startx -bpp 24
I forgot my $* on the end. I guess it won't be the last time I
outsmart myself, but I'll hope so, anyway.
>
>Also to correct myself; it's minus not slash :).
>
>// Heikki
>
>
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