multiple gnome sessions from same user

[Chris Tyler]

On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 12:00 -0400,  Sam Folk-Williams wrote:
> Subject: multiple gnome sessions from same user
> To: fedora-devel-list at redhat.com
> Message-ID: <1158853936.14144.61.camel at samfw.rdu.redhat.com>
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> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm noticing that if I have a gnome session on my desktop and try to
> start vnc (which also uses gnome) as my same username, I get this
> error:
> 
> gnome-session: you're already running a session manager
> 
> iirc, in the past I would be able to open a second session as the same
> user. Is there a reason/explanation behind not allowing multiple
> sessions? Or have i configured something wrong?
> 
> thanks,
> Sam

Try unsetting SESSION_MANAGER before starting VNC. The same thing can
happen when using Xnest.

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