Things get "curiouser and curiouser". What does *NOT* work...
- on my main desktop main user account, script ~/bin/x

#! /bin/bash
# startx -- -nolisten tcp -config ${1}xorg.conf &
startx -- -nosilk -config ${1}xorg.conf &

- on my main desktop "user2" account for other stuff, including an old
OS/2 game over VNC, script ~/bin/x1

[dev2][user2][~] cat bin/x1
#! /bin/bash
startx -- :1 -depth 16 -nolisten tcp -nosilk -config ${1}xorg.conf &

Note: these both work on my "hot backup" machine. ***BUT WAIT...
THERE's MORE***. After some playing around I found that if I run plain
"startx" from the commandline on my desktop (launching /usr/bin/startx)
it launches just fine, complete with multiple workareas and my custom
ICEWM menu!!! Has "startx" changed how it parses arguments? The thing
I'm missing now is for my user2 account, starting in DISPLAY :1 instead
of :0 and also at 16 bpp.


Walter Dnes <waltdnes@???>
There are 2 types of people in this world
1) Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data