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Re: Fedora 9 X dual screen problems



 On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 07:49:57PM -0400, David Kramer wrote: 
> >Sounds like you don't have a window manager running on your 
> >second X session. Try: 
> > 
> >DISPLAY=:1 metacity & 
> 
> That sounds like a good thing to try, but it didn't work, and gave me no 
> useful information. 
> 
> [david@lexa ~]$ export DISPLAY=:1 
> [david@lexa ~]$ echo $DISPLAY 
> :1 
> [david@lexa ~]$ kwin 
> kwin: FATAL ERROR while trying to open display :1 
> [david@lexa ~]$ metacity 
> Window manager error: Unable to open X display :1 
> [david@lexa ~]$ 


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