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xorg package

  1. Bug #1433329
  2. Comment #22

Comment 22 for bug 1433329

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In , Bastiaan (bastiaan-redhat-bugs) wrote :

(In reply to Hans de Goede from comment #5)
> For use with startx it requires a tiny bit of manual configuration (because
> otherwise various dm-s would be broken), see:
> http://hansdegoede.livejournal.com/14446.html

I've followed these instructions on several machines and it seems to work well, in that `ps' shows Xorg.bin running as the user that started it, except for the following.

If I understand correctly, it should be possible for several users, or a single user, to run multiple X servers simultaneously without root privileges. But this doesn't work on two systems that I've tried, using startx, logging output:

[1650443.633] _XSERVTransSocketUNIXCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed
[1650443.634] _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: server already running
[1650443.634] (EE)
Fatal server error:
[1650443.634] (EE) Cannot establish any listening sockets - Make sure an X server isn't already running(EE)
[1650443.634] (EE)
Please consult the Fedora Project support

Am I missing something?