Starting an alternate session with ctrl-alt f2 and starting up the gui. Using startx -- :1 for alternate session. Top level stuff launched from the menus works but starting programs from a terminal session fails. There are multiple lines No protocol specified ending with Display localhost:0.0 unavailable The environment variable $DISPLAY still has localhost:0.0 not what would be appropriate for the alternate session. If I remember correctly it should be localhost:1.0 but setting the variable to that doesn't work. Ideas? Robert McBroom -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines