I tried the second option and works :-) thanks to everybody that replied
Manos
On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Ted Harding wrote:
> On 25-Nov-97 E Papantoniou wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > when I am logged in as a user and I run X windows, I press Ctrl-Alt-F2
> > and as expected a new terminal comes up. Then I log in as a different user
> > and I type startx. I get some errors:
> >
> > Fatal server error
> > Server is already active for display 0
> > If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock and start again
> >
> > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> > Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
> > giving up
> > xinit: unable to connect to X server
> > xinit: no such process (errno 3): Server error
> >
> > does anybody know how to correct this?
>
> You don't correct it: it is correct already. You cannot run 2 X sessions on
> the
> same display (:0.0 in your case).**
>
> If you need to, you can start an independent X session on a different display
> (say :1.0; if your first was on VT7 then the next will be on VT8), but
> probably
> you only need to get xterm windows owned by a different user opened on the X
> display you already have.
>
> To do this, all you need to do is, say, "Ctrl-Alt-F2", login as the new user,
> and then, from this terminal, do "xterm [options] -display :0.0 &".
>
> Then (Alt-F7) switch back to the X display and you will have a new xterm owned
> as a logged-in window by the user newly logged in on VT2. From this xterm, the
> new user can start up any applications all of which will be owned by him.
> (This
> user may then log out from VT2, provided the "&" was used).
>
> In this way, any number of users can have their own user-owned windows on a
> single X display, just as if each user had started up X -- with the difference
> that the X "background", or root window, and the window manager, will be owned
> by the user who originally started X, so that all applications started up by
> clicking on root-window menus or on button-bars will again be owned by the
> original user.
>
> If you don't want that, and you do need to start an independent X session on
> display :1.0, then do something like
>
> startx -- :1 [other server options e.g. -bpp 16] &
>
> and you will then have 2 X displays, and you switch between them with
> Ctrl-Alt-F7, Ctrl-Alt-F8
>
> However, the switch is always cumbersome and the previous approach is usually
> preferable, provided it is sufficient.
>
> Hope this helps.
> Ted.
>
> ** Actually, while this is a correct statement, you CAN run "startx &" as a
> new
> user provided your xinitrc and wmrc are set up in a certain way: the attempt
> to
> start a new X session will fail, for the reason given, likewise for the WM,
> but
> you can persuade the applications which the WM would have started up to be
> started up on behalf of the new user, and they will overlay the old ones; but
> this is a perverse way to achieve the "multi-user in one X" result,
>
>
> E-Mail: Ted Harding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 25-Nov-97 Time: 17:55:44
>
>
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