Re: multiple X sessions problem

1997-12-09 Thread Manos Papantoniou
Remco Blaakmeer wrote: > > E Papantoniou wrote: > > my problem is that I cannot run more than one X server at the same time. > > When I am logged in as a user one and run startx on display :0.0, I do > > Ctrl-Alt-F2, log in as a user two and type startx -- :1.0 > I eventually managed to run the

Re: multiple X sessions problem

1997-12-09 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
E Papantoniou wrote: > my problem is that I cannot run more than one X server at the same time. > When I am logged in as a user one and run startx on display :0.0, I do > Ctrl-Alt-F2, log in as a user two and type startx -- :1.0 What version of the X packages are you running? There have been bugs

Re: multiple X sessions problem

1997-12-09 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Sat, 6 Dec 1997, Adrian Bridgett wrote: > This seems to be saying that the currently running Xserver won't let you > connect. I think when you run "startx --:1.0" it is trying to start it on > the currently running server. Try using something like "startx --vt9 :1.0" > (I don't know if that's r

Re: multiple X sessions problem

1997-12-07 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Fri, Dec 05, 1997 at 04:23:44PM +, E Papantoniou wrote: > (this is a repost) > Hi all, > > my problem is that I cannot run more than one X server at the same time. > When I am logged in as a user one and run startx on display :0.0, I do > Ctrl-Alt-F2, log in as a user two and type startx --

Re: multiple X sessions problem

1997-12-06 Thread Sten Anderson
E Papantoniou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > my problem is that I cannot run more than one X server at the same time. > When I am logged in as a user one and run startx on display :0.0, I do > Ctrl-Alt-F2, log in as a user two and type startx -- :1.0 > The second X server attempts to start (the gra

Re: multiple X sessions problem

1997-12-06 Thread William R. Ward
I've seen this working (on a Redhat system) once, but have never managed to get it work on my own systems. It would be convenient, so for example my wife and I can both be logged in and switch back and forth easily. --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com

Re: multiple X sessions problem

1997-12-06 Thread William R. Ward
I've seen this working (on a Redhat system) once, but have never managed to get it work on my own systems. It would be convenient, so for example my wife and I can both be logged in and switch back and forth easily. --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.co

Re: multiple X sessions problem

1997-12-06 Thread bleach
Let me count the reasons... 1) If I want to do some work when someone else is already logged in via xdm (ie: They don't mind the 'break' but would mind "shutting down" for me). 2) If I am logged in as me and decide that I want to do a bunch of "sysadm" type stuff, I will frequently

Re: multiple X sessions problem

1997-12-05 Thread Stephen Zander
E Papantoniou wrote: > my problem is that I cannot run more than one X server at the same time. > When I am logged in as a user one and run startx on display :0.0, I do > Ctrl-Alt-F2, log in as a user two and type startx -- :1.0 More importantly, why are you trying to? There are several window ma

multiple X sessions problem

1997-12-05 Thread E Papantoniou
(this is a repost) Hi all, my problem is that I cannot run more than one X server at the same time. When I am logged in as a user one and run startx on display :0.0, I do Ctrl-Alt-F2, log in as a user two and type startx -- :1.0 The second X server attempts to start (the gray default background ap

multiple X sessions problem

1997-12-04 Thread E Papantoniou
Hi all, my problem is that I cannot run more than one X server at the same time. When I am logged in as a user one and run startx on display :0.0, I do Ctrl-Alt-F2, log in as a user two and type startx -- :1.0 The second X server attempts to start (the gray default background appears) and gets stu