On Friday 26 January 2007 18:47, Todd Zullinger wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> I wish I had your luck girl, or some of it would rub off on me. Its >> been a while but I don't recall even being able to do startx as >> gene, ISTR it brought up the X in the middle of the screen, and then >> went away in another 2-3 seconds. > >Something else is wrong if you can't run startx as a normal user. >SELinux isn't that restrictive. You'd really want to look at the >errors on the console or in the X log to see why it failed. > >> Things would be a heck of a lot easier to test if I could just goto >> tty2's screen, login as gene, and start a second session of x as me. > >Why can't you? Are you specifying a different displaynumber? > It claims the server is already in use. >> But that upchucked and rebooted me the last time I had that oh so >> brilliant idea. But it was dead stable this time. Even when I ran sytem-config-display, which needed the root pw, and ran x just fine, but when done, it wrote to the system file in /etc/X11 rather than mine. >It's rather hard to guess what all would have to be broken for that to >happen. It's certainly not normal. :) > >> That would probably need more ram and this board is tapped out at >> 1gb of ram now. > >1GB of memory is more than enough to run two X sessions comfortably. >You can even configure GDM to start two login windows. Or use the >gdmflexiserver to launch a new login from withing your current login >session. 'twould be nice if I could figure it out. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2007 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.