I want to try running different window managers simultaneously. I had originally been using gdm3, but edited the /etc/init.d/gdm3 file and added the line "exit 0" as the first line just to eliminate it from working. Now I just logon at the prompt when the system boots into tty1, so far so good. I do not have either a .xinitrc or a .xsession file in my home directory. If I then run startx I get gnome, OK, it's runnning on display 0:0 .
If I want to run a second gnome I just do a C-A-F2 and issue the command: startx -- :1 and now I have a second gnome shell running at C-A-F8 on display :1.0. So far so good. I close the second gnome session with C-A-backspace, go back to tty2 and issue the command: xinit startfluxbox -- :1 OR xinit fluxbox -- :1 and what I get is a partially functioning fluxbox- the default xterm in the top left corner gives the error message: BScreen::BScreen: an error occured while querying the X server another window manager already running on display :1.0 etc OK, so I check: root@t520:/# ps aux | grep [f]luxbox keith 2517 0.0 0.0 15728 856 tty2 S+ 16:17 0:00 xinit startfluxbox -- :1 keith 2523 0.0 0.1 60908 6556 tty2 S 16:17 0:00 xterm -geometry +1+1 -n login startfluxbox keith 2525 0.2 0.1 110260 6876 pts/0 Ss+ 16:17 0:00 fluxbox root@t520:/# Looks like I am running two fluxbox sessions! How did that happen? If I instead exit everything, reboot, and create an ~/.xinitrc file with the only line being: exec fluxbox Then I can run xinit startfluxbox -- :0 with no problems, and then goto tty2 and run xinit startfluxbox -- :1 with no problems. Both simultaneously. But I then can't run gnome! Evidently because startx defaults to display 0:0 So I guess I am confused about the proper way to evoke multiple sessions without a DM. Can someone straighten me out? I don't really want to use a ~/.xinitrc because then I would have to edit it each time I wanted to change WM's, and besides, the whole point to this is to run multiple wm's simultaneously. And BTW- how to properly run gnome using xinit instead of startx? I have tried: xinit gnome-session but that doesn't work... I am currently running Wheezy with gnome2. Thanks, Keith -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/968548485c6437cf144a484d152434d6.squir...@webmail.strucktower.com
