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foobar2014

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Registered: 2014-03-11

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Cannot access DISPLAY :0.1 in X.org

Hi everyone,

I got a second monitor and want to start a second window manager (awesome) on it. So I plugged it in and it got detected by KDE and after making sure it works I wanted to create a new display on it. I want another window manager on it and marked the monitor as deactivated in the GUI.

The multihead article in the wiki points out you can access the monitor with "DISPLAY=:0.1" but it doesn't work. I get the following message:

$ DISPLAY=:0.1 awesome
E: awesome: main:384: cannot open display

Xrandr detects everything fine:

$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1920 x 1200, maximum 16384 x 16384
DisplayPort-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DVI-0 connected 1920x1200+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 518mm x 324mm
   1920x1200      60.0*+
   1920x1080      60.0  
   [...]
   720x400        70.1  
DVI-1 connected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
   1280x1024      60.0 +   75.0  
   1280x960       60.0  
   [...]
   720x400        70.1  

Can anyone help me? If i need to start another xserver this is also fine but I hope to avoid this because I want to move the mouse freely between the monitors.

Last edited by foobar2014 (2014-03-11 21:43:08)