Hi,
On Sunday 31 October 2004 03:54, you wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have Ubuntu & Fedora, both installed in my hdd. I usually boot into
> Ubuntu & have stable working environment there. But my brother has a
> peculiar liking for his home account in Fedora. Everytime he sees the
> computer free, he just reboots it into Fedora & i have to reboot it
> again to get back into my Ubuntu's account.
>
> To get GUI's running simultaneously from both distro's, i tried the
> following
>
> I mounted Fedora's partition on /fedora in Ubuntu, then...
>
> [03:46][root:/> root]$ chroot /fedora ### did this from ubuntu
> [03:46][root:/> /]$ ### chrooted successfully
> [03:47][root:/> /]$ umbrello
> umbrello: cannot connect to X server :0.0 ### This is the ERROR
> [03:47][root:/> /]$
>
> So, you see, the problem is the "cannot connect to X server :0.0". Every
> application gives the same prob.
>
> If i can get this thing to work, i can start KDM from the newly chrooted
> system & it'll probably start the KDM on next free DISPLAY number. That
> way, "Alt+Ctrl+F7" will have Ubuntu & "Alt+Ctrl+F8" will have Fedora.
>
> So me & my bro will happily co-exist without rebooting :-)
>
> Please help me out with the DISPLAY problem...
I'd suggest you use Xnest to solve your problem. Run:
$ Xnest -ac :1 &
$ chroot /fedora
$ export DISPLAY=:1
$ umbrello
Check umbrello's man page to check how to use another display if this doesn't
work.
> Thanks,
> makuchaku
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