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Can different-users have different-X?

From not.socialnetwork@gmail.com
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc, alt.os.linux.slackware, alt.os.linux.debian
Subject Can different-users have different-X?
Date 2014-10-08 12:08 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <m139f3$nlu$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)

Cross-posted to 3 groups.

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For the PC that never goes-online, I login as root.   *sorry*!!
Now I've got a subtle/complex problem that seems to be related to
the font-server.

I read that only root can change the font-server.
I don't want to reboot, and lose all my work, but wanted to see/if
what a non-root user sees in X.

Because I didn't cultivate the habit of pretending I'm various different
non-root userS, I just *assumed* that this multi-user OS could log
different users into different X configurations.
I favour blacbox, but Mary may prefer twm.

The error is <server already active on display 0>

What am I doing wrong?
Can I change the font-server settings, and still recover my work?
Is it possible that after the system boots, it's OK; but exercising 
various programs, changes some font-setting, which then makes
xpdf ...etc. fuzzy?

== TIA.

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Can different-users have different-X? not.socialnetwork@gmail.com - 2014-10-08 12:08 +0000
  Re: Can different-users have different-X? Øyvind Røtvold <orotvold@gmail.com> - 2014-10-08 14:34 +0200
    Re: Can different-users have different-X? Unknown <dog@gmail.com> - 2014-12-28 06:04 +0000
  Re: Can different-users have different-X? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2014-10-08 08:12 -0500
  Re: Can different-users have different-X? Balwinder S Dheeman <bdheeman.SANSPAM@outlook.com> - 2014-10-08 22:19 +0530

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