{"id":1012,"date":"2011-05-17T13:22:59","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T11:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raftaman.net\/?p=1012"},"modified":"2021-05-15T11:46:39","modified_gmt":"2021-05-15T09:46:39","slug":"starting-a-minimal-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/?p=1012","title":{"rendered":"Starting a minimal X"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just because I always forget and the parameters are somewhat non-trivial, here&#8217;s how you start an xterm inside X:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: bash; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\nstartx $(which xterm) -- :0 vt01\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Of course, the display name <code>:0<\/code> is usually used by default, so you may need to use another one (<code>:1<\/code> etc.) if you get an error like &#8220;<em>Server is already active for display 0<\/em>&#8220;. You can also select a different virtual terminal.<\/p>\n<p>Note that the <strong>absolute path to xterm<\/strong> (or whatever application you&#8217;d like to start inside X) <strong>is essential<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just because I always forget and the parameters are somewhat non-trivial, here&#8217;s how you start an xterm inside X: startx $(which xterm) &#8212; :0 vt01 Of course, the display name :0 is usually used by default, so you may need to use another one (:1 etc.) if you get an error like &#8220;Server is already active for display 0&#8220;. You&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/?p=1012\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-1012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-x"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1012"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions\/1017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}