On 10/3/07, Erik Terpstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > it should be > possible to run wmii on a second display, by invoking the following line: > > | DISPLAY=:1 wmii|
This command will work, assuming there is an X server running on display :1. > But after a while I get this message: > > wmiiwm: cannot open display Which suggests there is no X server running... > I would like to understand what I am doing wrong, I do not know very > much about the way X11 works. It goes like this: First, you start the X server. Then, you start the X clients. Then, you get the women- err, then you're done. The X server takes the display it should listen on as its argument, so... ; Xorg :1& ; DISPLAY=:1 wmii Note that this is basically what the startx script does. But startx doesn't look up PATH and needs you to seperate client options and server options with a --. ie: ; startx /usr/local/bin/wmii -- :1 > AFAIK it should be possible to switch between them by > pressing Ctrl-Alt-F7 and Ctrl-Alt-F8 respectively. Indeed. -sqweek
