\begin{Peter Rundle}
> I've just installed Debian on a VMware virtual machine, and I'm
> trying to get it to run X. So I installed the packages and the
> xdm login screen comes up no problems. When I try to log in
> however it appears to accept my username etc but then it just
> throws me back out. In the users .xsession-errors file there are
> messages like,
>
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by the server
> Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
> /usr/bin/X11/WindowMaker fatal error:could not open Display ":0"
you already have :0 running, try another display:
startx -- :1
> If I kill off X and xdm and log in as root on the console and
> then do a "startx", no problems. A normal user however cannot
> startx, it just flicks up then dies.
also: see /etc/X11/Xserver for who can start an X server
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