Multiple X Sessions on one Box

Matt Hansen helios82 at optushome.com.au
Sun May 16 05:31:37 UTC 2004


On Sun, 2004-05-16 at 12:30, Robert Spangler wrote:
> On Sat May 15 2004 20:03, Matt Hansen wrote:
> 
> >  Er, to elaborate a bit here, I mean the use of concurrent gdm X
> >  sessions with a full GNOME environment. Of course, as others have
> >  mentioned, there's always 'startx -- :n', but by default this uses
TWM.
> 
> Did I miss something?  When I start a second X session I see KDE not
TWM.
> If I start it in root I see Gnome which is the default window manager.

Hm, well on my FC1 system `startx -- :21` loads up the TWM environment.
I haven't altered any of the X config files.. are others seeing TWM when
they issue the above, or is there something amiss with my settings?

Regards,
-Matt
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