What if you chmod 7777 imwheel.pid ?  Wouldn't that make it accessible to 
all instances of imwheel?  That's what I did to solve that problem when 
I'm using Startx for multiple screens.

Seve


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On 7/21/00, 8:07:41 PM, "Ralph Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regarding 
Re: [newbie] imwheel probs:


> Someone mentioned earlier that you could delete the /tmp/imwheel.pid file 
in
> the users home directory .logout script.  Sounds like it should work fine
> but I haven't tried it.

> - Ralph

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "jeremy rogers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, July 21, 2000 12:54 AM
> Subject: Re: [newbie] imwheel probs


> >
> > heya dave....
> > its me again...(had to get a 2nd email account for this list to keep
> > the wife happy)        i was wondering...is there any way to run imwheel
> on
> > *both* my root account and my other account(s)?
> >
> > thanks again,
> >             jeremy
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> >
> > > had this prob 2 days ago.....
> >
> > > delete the /tmp/imwheel.pid file and restart imwheel with the user id u
> > > want to use imwheel with......
> > > this sets permissions on imwheel.pid to the user u are currently running
> > > and u can place imwheel -k in your autostart
> > > folder to start it everytime u start x....
> > >
> > > regards..
> > >
> > > --dave
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > At 09:14 18.07.00, you wrote:
> > > >greetings......
> > > >
> > > >         i am new to the group and am having probs with imwheel
> i can
> > > >only get it working on my root account                    before i
> upgraded to
> > > >7.1 i could use it on both root and my normal account              why
> is
> > > >this?
> > > >          ive tried to change permissions, but when i use the
> "imwheel -k"
> > > >command i get this bit about being nable to write pid file nonsense....
> > > >i was able to get it working on 7.0 (though i dont remember how
> exactly)
> > > >grrrrrrr!!!!               any help will be greatly appreciated......
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >                                         jeremy

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