[maemo-developers] Multiple instances of Maemo

[From: Qole]

I've asked a similar question before. It seems that maemo-launcher can only
have one instance running at a time, so that effectively limits the number
of Hildon desktops that can be running to one as well.

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 5:36 AM, Joel Raj <joel.ratan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Can somebody let me know how we can launch multiple instances of Maemo
> simultaneously, with each instance running for a user.
>
> I have created two users A and B on my Ubuntu machine. The two users also
> have their *users* created in Scratchbox. I also have Maemo SDK installed
> for both the users.
>
> I login as user A, create a Xephyr window with the DISPLAY value set to 2,
> login to scratchbox and launch maemo with DISPLAY value 2. Maemo is launched
> in the Xephyr window.
>
> As Maemo is running in user A, I switch user and then login as user B. Here
> I create a Xephyr window with DISPLAY value set to 3, login to scratchbox
> and launch maemo with DISPLAY value 3. Maemo is not launched, nothing is
> shown in Xephyr window and an error message as follows is shown.
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [sbox-DIABLO_X86: ~] > af-sb-init.sh start
> Sample files present.
> Starting DBUS system bus
> Starting D-BUS session bus daemon
> /usr/bin/af-sb-init.sh: line 1: export: `bus:': not a valid identifier
> /usr/bin/af-sb-init.sh: line 1: export: `/tmp/session_bus_socket:': not a
> valid identifier
> /etc/init.d/maemo-launcher: line 1: export: `bus:': not a valid identifier
> /etc/init.d/maemo-launcher: line 1: export: `/tmp/session_bus_socket:': not
> a valid identifier
> Starting Maemo Launcher: maemo-launchermaemo-launcher: died binding to
> invoker socket
>  start failed.
> Starting Sapwood image server
> sapwood-server[4620]: GLIB INFO default - server started
> Starting Matchbox window manager
> Starting clipboard-manager
> Starting Keyboard
> Starting Hildon Desktop
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> How can I make Maemo run for two different users simultaneously ?
>
> Note: I am doing this so that if I succeed, I can later use this Ubuntu
> machine as a server, so that multiple users can simultaneously login to that
> server and run Scratchbox/Maemo.
>
> Thanks,
> Joel.
>
>
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