RE: Attach a second client to my X server????

[Mike Owen <Mike Owen aptissoftware com>]

> From: Timothy Lillicrap [mailto:ik0873 kingston net]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 10:28 PM
> To: redhat-list redhat com
> Subject: Attach a second client to my X server????
> 
> 
> Hi, I would like to be able to attach a second client to the X server 
> running on my machine so that I can have two desktop environments
> running at the same time for two different users(ex. gnome and KDE).  
> 
> When I am logged in as one user and I issue startx everything 
> comes up exactly
> the way it should.  Then if I switch back to a virtual 
> terminal, login as
> another user, and issue startx I get the following output to stderr.
> 


It's been a long time since I figured this out, but try the following:

If you are running xdm, add another line into the /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers file
that looks like the first line. If you start with initlevel 3, then try
poking around the /etc/X11 directory, and see if you can find another server
config file.

Sorry for the incomplete data, it was a 5.2 box that has been retired for
awhile.

HTH,
Mike