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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Getting started with windows and screens without desktop environment Post 302724255 by vbe on Wednesday 31st of October 2012 12:04:30 PM
Old 10-31-2012
Quote:
An X window (or tell me how to call it) is launched via the command

Code:

/usr/bin/startx /etc/X11/my-session -- -br -ac -nolisten tcp
What you call a window is in fact a call to open an X session ( can contain multiple windows within e.g. a firefox window...) that means there is somewhere a X server running...
A X server can run different instances (sessions) the session number is what you see after IP or host name in the variable DISPLAY
 

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