On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Richardson,Anthony wrote: > > I'm working thru some of the exercises in the book "A Practical Guide to > Linux". > In the GUI chapter the author mentions that you can start multiple X > servers in > different blank virtual consoles. I thought this would be neat and > thought I'd try it. > When I do "startx -- :1.0 &" the server starts, but the clients complain > about > not having authorization to connect to the server. > > I played around with xauth to add an entry to the .Xauthority file and > got > everything to work. The xauth man page mentions that entries in the > .Xauthority file are normally created by xdm, so I don't believe the way > I got > things to work is proper. (Something seemed strange about the way I just > typed in a long, random, hex number.) Would someone please provide > provide > enlightenment as to the correct procedure or point me to appropriate > documentation?
Looking at the startx script, I'd say you should use ":1" (without quotes) instead of ":1.0". They both mean the same to the X server but the former isn't recognised as a local display by the startx script. If it doesn't work, your startx script is probably one of those that don't really support multiple local X servers. I'd be happy to send you mine. It's not that big. Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
