On Sun, 08 Mar 2009, Johan Dobbelstein wrote:
> 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 ,)
>
I used Xephyr and got the following output:
---- snip -----
Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic, removing from
list!
unrecognised device identifier!
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed
unrecognised device identifier!
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed
unrecognised device identifier!
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed
unrecognised device identifier!
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed
unrecognised device identifier!
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed
unrecognised device identifier!
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed
unrecognised device identifier!
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed
unrecognised device identifier!
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed
/home/daniel/.config/awesome/rc.lua:33: attempt to index field 'suit' (a nil
value)
--- snip ---
Here is line 30-34 of my rc.lua :
--- snip ---
" -- Table of layouts to cover with awful.layout.inc, order matters.
layouts =
{
awful.layout.suit.tile,"
--- snip ---
d.
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