On Sat, 7 Mar 2009 17:16:58 -0800
Daniel Goldin <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, 08 Mar 2009, Gregor Best wrote:
>
> > At Sat, 7 Mar 2009 13:12:25 -0800
> > Daniel Goldin wrote:
> >
> > 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
Hi Daniel,
the error is very common if you work on a Debian system (or Ubuntu). To launch a
second X server, either log in via a tty console (Ctrl+Alt+F[1-6]) and then run
$> startx /usr/bin/awesome
or change your X wrapper settings with
$> dpkg-reconfigure x11-common
and choose Users allowed = anybody. After that the script from Gregor
should work.
Johan
P.S.: you can also use Xephyr to easily "debug" awesome if you prefer :
http://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/index.php?title=Using_Xephyr
(big thanks to Dante4d ,)
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