[maemo-developers] asking help about installing xephyr

[From: Cornelius Hald]

Hi Liu!

On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 00:09 +0300, liuyp wrote:
> Hi Conny,
> 
> when i try the first command you suggested, an err happened, and no
> windows opened. 

Not good, it should work ;)

> sbox at liuyp-laptop:~$ Xephyr :2 -host-cursor -screen 800x480x16 -dpi 96
> -ac -extension Composite
> Fatal server error:
> Could not create server lock file: /tmp/.X2-lock

Ok, for some reasons your user cannot write to /tmp/ which should be
possible without problems. It looks like there is something wrong with
your ubuntu installation. Or maybe you're out of disk space? Is the
"sbox" user your normal user? I mean do you login into the graphical
session using this user?
What does "df -h" tells you? How do the permissions of /tmp look like?
Should be something like:
drwxrwxrwt  17 root root 4.0K 2009-06-18 08:07 tmp

Conny