Timothy Lillicrap wrote:
> Hi, I would like to be able to attach a second client to the X server
> running on my machine so that I can have two desktop environments
> running at the same time for two different users(ex. gnome and KDE) so
that I
> can access one with ctrl+alt+F7, and the other with ctrl+alt+F8.


It sounds like what you want to do is run two X servers.  Every program
you run is an X client, so your window manager is a client, your panel
is a client, file manager, etc, etc.


> When I am logged in as one user and I issue startx everything comes up
exactly
> the way it should.  Then if I switch back to another virtual terminal,
login as
> another user, and issue startx I get the following output to stderr.
> 
> #Begin output
> Server error:
> Server is already active for display
>               if this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock
>               and start again.


I've never tried to do this before, but the problem you're experiencing
is that you're trying to run two X servers with DISPLAY=:0.0, the
default.

Try 'startx' as one user, switch to another vt, then do:
export DISPLAY=:1.0
startx

If that doesn't work, I don't suppose that this is going to.

> I feel that my machine should be able to handle more than one connection
to the
> x server (AMD 400/128 meg Ram).  I am also interested in finding a way
to
> connect to an X server across a LAN.  Is there a howto related to this
sort of
> thing????

X server's don't offer a remote display.  That's why Xvnc was suggested 
: )

MSG


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