Re: Multi-head (non-Xinerama) window managers

[Sam Bashton <sam@ipsupport.co.uk>]

On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 12:50:39PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> Doing the following from a terminal in either screen 0 or screen
> 1 -- with no window manager running on screen 1:
> 
>   diamond:~> fluxbox --display :0.1
>   led to read: session.tabs
>   Setting default value
>   [...]
>   Failed to load groupfile: 
>   BScreen::BScreen: an error occured while querying the X server.
>           another window manager already running on display :0.1.
>   Fluxbox::Fluxbox: no managable screens found, aborting.
>   Fluxbox: Unknown error.
> 
>   diamond:~> fluxbox -version
>   Fluxbox 0.1.14 : (c) 2001-2002 Henrik Kinnunen 
> 
> Any clue what this is all about?#

Sounds like it doesn't like the fact you have a wm running, even if it is on a
different display.
I load fluxbox by adding it to my .xinitrc

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Sam Bashton
Systems Administrator
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