Second X session

[Bob Nielsen]

On Jun 8, 2006, at 5:40 PM, ubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com wrote:

>
> 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


The reason that it doesn't work is that you are not trying to execute  
icewm-session, startx is.