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Re: window manager running already


Frank Schaefer wrote:
Updating to 1.5.9-1 causes problem under WinXP and Win98 when trying to
'startx:'

"window manager already running"

while none is actually running. I was not able to figure out how
'X' comes to this conclusion. Is there a file that can be deleted.
The only other reason I could think of is that we started an
'X -broadcast' session. However, this too has been terminated.


Thanks for any help.

Frank




I ran into this too. As I like my OpenBox full-screen window manager, I found that:


startx -- :1

does the job very nicely. As another poster said, display 0 is now claimed by Windows itself, so we need to start up a new X session on display 1 (if you want your full-screen window manager for all of your X apps).

Dan



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