multiple gnome sessions from same user
Chris Tyler
chris at tylers.info
Thu Sep 21 16:48:58 UTC 2006
On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 12:00 -0400, Sam Folk-Williams wrote:
> Subject: multiple gnome sessions from same user
> To: fedora-devel-list at redhat.com
> Message-ID: <1158853936.14144.61.camel at samfw.rdu.redhat.com>
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>
> Hi,
>
> I'm noticing that if I have a gnome session on my desktop and try to
> start vnc (which also uses gnome) as my same username, I get this
> error:
>
> gnome-session: you're already running a session manager
>
> iirc, in the past I would be able to open a second session as the same
> user. Is there a reason/explanation behind not allowing multiple
> sessions? Or have i configured something wrong?
>
> thanks,
> Sam
Try unsetting SESSION_MANAGER before starting VNC. The same thing can
happen when using Xnest.
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