On 07-Apr-99 Richard Harran wrote: > Do you mean that you are trying to start a second X session while the > first is still running, or are you having difficulty starting for a > second time having exited the first session? > > If it is the first (and you get an error like: > server is already active for display :0, or something) > you can fix it with > startx -- :1 > to start the second X server on display 1. This will probably associate > it with <ctrl><alt><F8>. > > If it is the second, I think you have a problem (X not exiting > properly?) 'cos I don't think that should happen.
I get those annoying MAGIC COOKIE warnings when I su from a regular user and this even happens when I use vim after 'su'. I am still able to edit stuff, and the only problem is when I need to run some X program as superuser. I saw somewhere how to deal with this Xauth stuff, but I don't remember where. -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37]