window manager running already

[Dan Scott]

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