On 27 Apr 2002 20:31:33 +0200, Marcus Lundblad wrote:
>
> I read somewhere that running the same WM in Xnest as is running on the
> X-session starting Xnest could cause the machine to crash.
> I accidently did this, but it seemed to work (although I quit quickly when
> I realised what I just done...)
>
> Is there a reason why this would be dangerous? I could see the possibility
> that the 2 instanses tries to write to a file at the same time, but
> nothing that fatal...
It is safe to run several fvwm instances concurrently, say, on :0 and :1.
If you have no problems running Xnest, start the second fvwm freely.
Regards,
Mikhael.
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Received on Sat Apr 27 2002 - 14:49:18 BST