Second X session

[Paul Kaplan]

On Thursday 08 June 2006 08:12, Peter Garrett wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Jun 2006 07:13:28 -0400
> Paul Kaplan <pkaplan1 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> [I wrote]
>
> > > What happens if you issue
> > >
> > > startx /usr/bin/xterm -- :1
> > >
> > > then call icewm from the xterm that should start up on display :1  ?
> > >
> > > Peter
> >
> > That works fine, but the former direct approach has worked on other
> > distros.
>
> As it should in Ubuntu. Hence my earlier suggestion of looking at the
> start-up script ( whatever you use, be it ~/.xsession or the icewm script,
> or icewm-session if that indeed is a script )
>
> In other words, if xterm works, you have an application-specific issue
> ( in this case, icewm itself or rather, the script that starts it).
>
> Did you try looking at possible scripts?
>
> dpkg -L icewm | grep bin
>
> and see which ones are scripts, then look at them as indicated by
>
> file /usr/bin/<foo>    or whatever.
>
> Did you try icewm-session as I suggested in a previous post?
>
> Peter
>
The following works:
startx /usr/bin/icewm-session -- :1

but
startx icewm-session -- :1  does not

given that /usr/bin is in my $PATH, why shouldn't the latter work?
Paul