Monte Milanuk wrote: > > Ok. Either something in the world of X has changed w/o me realizing it > (probably), or I'm having a d.s. attack and can't remember the syntax > correctly. > > Let's say I have X all configured and what not, and am logged in just > fine. Then I want to do some thing else in a different X session, for > what ever reason. So I do a 'Ctrl+Alt+F1' to go to the first virtual > console, log in, and then type 'startx : --1' which *should* IIRC open a > second X session (#1) on virtual console #8, vs the previous X session > (#0) on tty 7. > > What I get is: > > [monte@DEMANDRED monte]$ startx : --1 > > Fatal server error: > Server is already active for display 0 > If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock and try again > > WTF? I'm already running a session on display 0 (tty 7), so I don't > think I want to go deleting /tmp/.X0-lock, but whats going on here?
Wrong syntax. The correct syntax is "startx -- :1" Cheers, -- Javier Gostling Ingeniero de Sistemas Virtualia S.A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fono: +56 (2) 202-6264 x 130 Fax: +56 (2) 342-8763 Av. Kennedy 5757, of 1502 Las Condes Santiago Chile _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
