On 19-Dec-97 Heikki Vatiainen wrote: >Are you really, really sure you did not forget the space after those two >slashes. I use the command almost every day and it works just fine. However, >if if type
Yep, I'm absolutely certain - I entered: startx -- :1 the only spaces were between x and -- and between -- and :1 three tokens, and I just re-tried to be absolutely certain. Oops, this time I ran as root and voila, it worked! So I tried it again as myself, and once again it failed, go figure! > >startx --:1 > ^^^-- note, no space after the second slash > >I get the same error as you about X already being active for display 0. > >The two slashes mean that there are no more arguments to the startx script >and all the following arguments should be passed to the X server. In this >case the X server is started as > >X :1 > >and it starts on VC8. > >// Heikki > > > >-- >TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] . >Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . ----------------------------------------- Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mary bought a pair of skates upon the ice to frisk now wasn't that a crazy way her sweet young *? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
