Re: startx as user

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Matt Price wrote:

> Im having some trouble with kde, but still depend on my sup as a daily
> work environment.  So I'd like to be able to ru kde on one display
> (:0) and afterstep on a second (1).  
>
> I tried this:
>
> startx /usr/bin/afterstep -- :1
> and got the message "can't open .Xauthority"
> so I tried writing a tiny script:
>
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> X -auth .Xauthority1 :1
> /usr/bin/afterstep
>
> and got the message: 
> X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting.
> AfterStep: can't open display
>
> as root or with sudo either method works.  
> Any advice on a safer way to start a second x session?
>
> thanks as usual,
> matt
>
>
>  
I dunno. Maybe try a different wm to make sure it's not a problem with 
afterstep. I was able to do what you're trying (but not with afterstep, 
which I don't have installed).

My sister's running icewm on vt7 (X display :0) via kdm; also from kdm 
running on vt8 (X display :1), I logged in as myself and chose icewm. 
Then, just now, I ctrl-alt-f2'd to get to vt2 and logged in as myself 
and ran "startx /usr/bin/xfce -- :2" which started xfce on vt9 (X 
display :2). So it _should_ work for you.

Kent