[wplug] stuck in console mode

bgtrio at yahoo.com bgtrio at yahoo.com
Thu Mar 20 16:47:55 EST 2003


Well, I can do this with Redhat 8.0, I'm not sure all versions of startx 
pass the display option off to the X binary in the same way.  What distro 
are you using?

I assure you it is possible :)

Bryon


On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote:

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> On Thursday 20 March 2003 16:16, bgtrio at yahoo.com wrote:
> > Or, in that case he could just start another X session like so:
> >
> > startx -- :1
> >
> > Took me a while to track down how to do this, but the -- :1 means
> > "open it on display #1" (as opposed to display #0, your first
> > display).
> 
> How does that work? Two local X sessions? I get a "server already active 
> for display 0" error when I try to do this.
> 
> I always thought that this can't be done.
> 
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