Re: Can different-users have different-X?

From	Balwinder S Dheeman <bdheeman.SANSPAM@outlook.com>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc, alt.os.linux.slackware, alt.os.linux.debian
Subject	Re: Can different-users have different-X?
Followup-To	comp.os.linux.misc
Date	2014-10-08 22:19 +0530
Organization	Abbe International
Message-ID	<m13pvs$p28$1@speranza.aioe.org> (permalink)
References	<m139f3$nlu$1@dont-email.me>

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On 10/08/2014 05:38 PM, not.socialnetwork@gmail.com wrote:
> 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?

Ask the users to login from a virtual/text terminal and then use
'startx' command to start X server. The users can customize their setup
by creating and, or editing $HOME/.xinitrc and $HOME/.xserverrc files,
see manpage for startx(1) for further details.

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Balwinder S "bdheeman" Dheeman (http://bdheeman.BlogSpot.in/)
"Working together, works! The proof is GNU/Linux and F/LOSS Projects;
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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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