window manager startup problem

[Paul Kaplan]

On Thursday 18 May 2006 05:43, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Paul Kaplan, le Thu 18 May 2006 05:34:10 -0400, a écrit :
> > I'm trying to start icewm on a second console (opensuse 10.1) w/ the
> > command startx -icewm --:1 and I'm met with the following error:
>
> man startx says to read man xinit, which says "Both the client program
> name and the server program name must begin with a slash (/) or a period
> (.). Otherwise, they are treated as an arguments to be appended to their
> respective startup lines. "
>
> So you probably wanted to run
>
> startx /usr/bin/icewm -- :1
>
> > waiting for X server to shutdown FreeFontPath: FPE
> > "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled" refcount is 2, should be 1;
> > fixing.
>
> This is _not_ the error. See earlier messages in the backlog.
>
> Samuel
This resulted in the same error.  If I omit the call to icewm (either way), 
this command opens a second X server running the default WM (KDE).
Paul