Bug#435198: xinit: i had the same problem
Package: xinit
Version: 1.0.9-2
Followup-For: Bug #435198
This bug seems to be random. I had this bug yesterday but today i couldn't
reproduce it.
i had a KDE on :0.0, then i switched to a tty and ran as a user:
xinit /usr/bin/xterm -- :1 -depth 16
And there where no xterm on :1. Just the X background.
after retrying several times with :2 and /usr/bin/xclock,
I figured out that the xterm was launched on :0.
in that xterm, the DISPLAY var was ':0.0'
setting DISPLAY to :1, i could run whatever i wanted on that screen.
but the fact that the initial xterm was run on :0 confused me.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26.5batchyx8.7 (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to fr_FR.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages xinit depends on:
ii cpp 4:4.3.2-2 The GNU C preprocessor (cpp)
ii libc6 2.7-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libx11-6 2:1.1.5-2 X11 client-side library
xinit recommends no packages.
xinit suggests no packages.
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