multiple connections from Xserver

Michel Bardiaux mbardiaux@peaktime.be
Fri Sep 24 07:47:00 GMT 2004


Vijay Kiran Kamuju wrote:

> is it possible to connect to multiple clients from my XServer

What do you mean *to* multiple clients *from* X server? Unless you mean 
some kind of session manager, it works the other way, a client (like 
xterm) connects to the server.

> 
> im already running XWin by
> 
> XWin -clipboard -query yamuna&
> 
> i wanted 2 connect to another server named himalya while keeping
> connection to above open

You apparently try to start two X servers on the same machine. What role 
is 'himalaya' supposed to play? Be another display, or run xterm (and 
from there your programs).

> 
> it gives a fatal error and i am providing the 
> 
> Contents of /tmp/XWin.log
> -------------------------------------
> 
> Welcome to the XWin X Server
> Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
> Release: 6.8.1.0-1
> 
> Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> 
> XWin was started with the following command line:
> 
> XWin -clipboard -query himalaya
> 
> ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens
> winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 1024 h 768
> winInitializeDefaultScreens - Returning
> winCheckDisplayNumber - Cygwin/X is already running on display 0
> 
> Fatal server error:
> InitOutput - Duplicate invocation on display number: 0.  Exiting.
> 
> winDeinitMultiWindowWM - Noting shutdown in progress


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