> 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