On Nov 20 10:26:22, Alexander Hall wrote:
> I'm just curious how come it its possible to start (and run) cwm at the 
> same time as running fvwm (from base).

How exactly does that happen on your box?

> AFAIK a window manager normally 
> cannot (or refuses to) run if another window manager is already in use. 
> Is this only a courtsey from the second window manager? I thought there 
> were limitations in X that forced this behaviour.

A window manager needs its own $DISPLAY,
but that's IMHO the only limitation.

tty00$ startx
tty01$ startx -- :1

        Jan

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