deloptes composed on 2016-11-30 07:30 (UTC+0100):

> Felix Miata wrote:

>> xserver

> In your example I don't see how you are passing the display number to
> xserver command

I've not been, and adding it doesn't change anything. I'm not trying to start a 
server. I'm trying to alter the already running server from within the running 
server. The commands are all run on screen :0 in the instant case. Why does the 
first instance work as expected (as it has since it was KDE3 and probably KDE2 
before) without specifying a screen?

>        All  of  the  X  servers  accept the command line options described
> below.  Some X servers may have alternative ways of providing the
> parameters
>        described here, but the values provided via the command line options
> should override values specified via other mechanisms.
>
>        :displaynumber
>                The X server runs as the given displaynumber, which by
> default is 0.  If multiple X servers are to run simultaneously on  a  host,
> each
>                must  have  a unique display number.  See the DISPLAY NAMES
> section of the X(7) manual page to learn how to specify which display
> number
>                clients should try to use.

# man X(7)
bash: syntax error near unexpected token '('.
# man X
no manual entry for X
# tdecmshell --help-all only shows a displayname option, no displaynumber
# tdecmshell --help-all
Usage: kcmshell [Qt-options] [KDE-options] [options] module...

Says nothing about server options.

What is shown in http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/dpi108vs133.jpg is all from a single 
running instance of starttde, not some cut and paste hocus pocus.

???
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