On Sun, 08 Mar 2009, Gregor Best wrote:

> At Sat, 7 Mar 2009 13:12:25 -0800
> Daniel Goldin wrote:
> 
> > I am a writer -- not a programmer -- who loves awesome for its speed,
> > efficiency and keyboard-oriented approach. I've had no problems until
> > I upgraded to 3.2-rc4. Now I see no wibox; keyboard shortcuts don't
> > work; no menu. I just get the awesome screen -- that's it.
> > 
> > Any help figuring out what's wrong here will be greatly appreciated.
> > 
> > Daniel
> > 
> 
> Could you start awesome from a terminal and paste its output? If you are in an
> X11 session and have a terminal open, you can do
>  sleep 1; X :1 &
>  DISPLAY=:1.0 awesome
> to start a second X server with awesome running on it.

When I run the sleep commands, I get a message:

"X: user not authorized to run x server, aborting."

I tried running the second part, and I get:

"E: awesome:main:428: Cannot open display"

Thanks so much for your help.

daniel




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>     Gregor Best



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