I tried the second option and works :-) thanks to everybody that replied Manos
On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Ted Harding wrote: > On 25-Nov-97 E Papantoniou wrote: > > Hi, > > > > when I am logged in as a user and I run X windows, I press Ctrl-Alt-F2 > > and as expected a new terminal comes up. Then I log in as a different user > > and I type startx. I get some errors: > > > > Fatal server error > > Server is already active for display 0 > > If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock and start again > > > > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > > Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key > > giving up > > xinit: unable to connect to X server > > xinit: no such process (errno 3): Server error > > > > does anybody know how to correct this? > > You don't correct it: it is correct already. You cannot run 2 X sessions on > the > same display (:0.0 in your case).** > > If you need to, you can start an independent X session on a different display > (say :1.0; if your first was on VT7 then the next will be on VT8), but > probably > you only need to get xterm windows owned by a different user opened on the X > display you already have. > > To do this, all you need to do is, say, "Ctrl-Alt-F2", login as the new user, > and then, from this terminal, do "xterm [options] -display :0.0 &". > > Then (Alt-F7) switch back to the X display and you will have a new xterm owned > as a logged-in window by the user newly logged in on VT2. From this xterm, the > new user can start up any applications all of which will be owned by him. > (This > user may then log out from VT2, provided the "&" was used). > > In this way, any number of users can have their own user-owned windows on a > single X display, just as if each user had started up X -- with the difference > that the X "background", or root window, and the window manager, will be owned > by the user who originally started X, so that all applications started up by > clicking on root-window menus or on button-bars will again be owned by the > original user. > > If you don't want that, and you do need to start an independent X session on > display :1.0, then do something like > > startx -- :1 [other server options e.g. -bpp 16] & > > and you will then have 2 X displays, and you switch between them with > Ctrl-Alt-F7, Ctrl-Alt-F8 > > However, the switch is always cumbersome and the previous approach is usually > preferable, provided it is sufficient. > > Hope this helps. > Ted. > > ** Actually, while this is a correct statement, you CAN run "startx &" as a > new > user provided your xinitrc and wmrc are set up in a certain way: the attempt > to > start a new X session will fail, for the reason given, likewise for the WM, > but > you can persuade the applications which the WM would have started up to be > started up on behalf of the new user, and they will overlay the old ones; but > this is a perverse way to achieve the "multi-user in one X" result, > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > E-Mail: Ted Harding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 25-Nov-97 Time: 17:55:44 > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
