> Thanks for the tip Gueorgui.  I haven't tried Xnest before so I installed 
> it from 8.1 distribution.  I'm finding it difficult to find any help apart 
> from the man page, but it seems to be giving me the same sort of 
> authorisation problems...
> 
> [00:18 peter@penguin:~]$ Xnest :1 && xterm -display :1
> /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm.real Xt error: Can't open display: :1
> 

sounds like an X cookie problem

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