A Gamerz Must Have!!

Hi I love to game and with Linux they have my 2 most favorite games. Wolfenstien: Enemy Territory (with the ELITE mod) and ArmyOps

So I am set, but there are some annoyances. One of the biggest for me is that when I play I can't minimize the screen when I am playing, say if i had a IM or if i wanted to read a web-page while I am waiting to respawn. Okay sure I can minimize it with the following:

Alt+Enter

But it seems to me it takes to long or it freezes up or i lose my mouse. Well I found a better way. Which I use frequently to my delight. Sure people know how to do this, but I am reaching out to the ones who don't.

Everything that I explain is explained here
But I am writing this out of my experiences.

You are currently running on your X-server (or DISPLAY) and you should know that if you

Ctrl+Alt+F(1,2,3,4,5,6,)

you get different terminals, and you can use them all at the same time if need be.
And the last

Ctrl+Alt+F7

Is your Graphical Interface. Well Have you ever wanted to have a 2ND Graphical interface? Well you can with the steps below.

Enabling your Second X-server:

try this:

Open up a terminal window and type:

X :1.0

This starts your Second X server you should see your mouse and should be able to move it around on a blank screen (I have a nVidia Flash Screen that pops up telling me that i have the graphics installed). My mouse is an X on the screen.

IF YOU GET THIS GO TO THE BOTTOM FOR THE SOLUTION

Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified xterm Xt error: Can't open display: :0.0

IF ALL IS GOOD CONTINUE

Then: Ctrl+Alt+F7

This brings you back to your main desktop.

To keep it organize, I go back to the same terminal

Go to File > Open Tab > Default

Then in that new window type

export DISPLAY=:1.0

This sets your terminal to run the second X-server DISPLAY

to see what X-server you are controlling you type

echo $DISPLAY

You should see
:1.0 *you don't need to do this, I am making sure that you see what you're controlling*

Then type:

xterm

This started the xterm in your second X-Server.

Then Ctrl+Alt+F8

you should see that screen with your mouse and now a xterm is in it, click on the xterm and type your game/program that you would like to use.

et

Now during the game perhaps you want to go back to your Desktop

Then Ctrl+Alt+F7

and Ctrl+Alt+F8 to get back.

And You are Done I find it to be faster and more effective and its cool geeky thing to do :-) Happy Gaming!!



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Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified xterm Xt error: Can't open display: :0.0

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This indecates your writes are not enough to access this screen. If you don't even now: It's deny to start any applications on the X of somebody else. Even for root.
But as we can solve that problem by editing the .Xauthority using xauth.

linux $ xauth
xauth>

How you have an auth-prompt to edit the accesfiles. First lets see all entry for now:

xauth> list
0.0.0.0:0  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1  68d682a4f137b4f4679248eybc36a7c5
xeroc/unix:0  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1  68d682a4f137b4f4679248eybc36a7c5

As we see here we are only allowed to use :0. My MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1-Code is this: 68d682a4f137b4f4679248eybc36a7c5 (For security I changed it).
We now have to add Display :1.0:

xauth> add :1.0 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1  68d682a4f137b4f4679248eybc36a7c5

and save:

xauth> exit

Note that 'quit' removes changes and exits then.

Now all should work fine.

Wow!!! A Linuxianz Must Have!!! I saw somewhere it was impossible!!
But i should expect your thread to be something great because you play Truecombat: elite .
Thxx man. And gg hf gl

I have moved this thread to Linux-Games - why not write this up for our Tutorial section?

Yeah!!! Brilliant post!! That's what we newbies (I started seriously with linux just 3 days ago) need to learn how to use the best OS out there! Thank you very much ;D

I just have one question. How do you remove the new X server? I tried killing the X:1.0 process in the new X server but now when I do CTRL+ALT+F8 I get a black screen with a keyboard cursor in the top left corner and I am unable to type or do anything there.

Thanks for the post! That's really cool! I love playing ArmyOps, and that'll be a really nice thing to be able to do.

You guys might want to check out Xgame.
It's a perl script that provides a simple gui for starting a game in a new X session.

When you go to the konsole where you started the :1.0 you just hit

Ctrl+C

to kill the process and when you get back to the normal command line you konw its done.

Even though there is a cursor blinker, its not doing anything it is just there ready to start up again if need be.

I just switch desktop......

You will notice that you can't move anything on the new screen this is because you don't have a window manager running. Since I use the Gnome Desktop environment I know that the KDE window manager isn't being used so i start that up in a new xterm on my first display:

# export DISPLAY=:1.0
# kwin

Now after I have made more windows, for console or to surf the Internet, i now can move the windows if they over lap. lol :-)

Thank you for reading,
~Bryon

P.S. rejser, reread the first post i think you mis-understand why i want to have another display.

I have been experimenting with Wine, and installing programs all over the place. lol I find it very annoying when programs freeze or their splash screen wont go away for some odd reason, and so usually I go into console and init 3 then init 5 to get back to my original screen. So i am experimenting with using the second X window instead so that I don't have to keep reboot my 1st X server. but I am having some problems getting it to work in the second X Server

first of all I have just been trying this, I start up my X server.

X :1.0

then I start up KDE, i don't know why i just don't want to mess up with Gnome, when i using it on my first one. even though i have tried it too on there, i will explain that later.

kdm

Thats under root

theni start up the window manager

kwin

this all works out but then when it yr to use wine to play a game or anything

wine ./UFO\ Defense.exe

i get a butt-load of errors:

err:module:import_dll Library ole32.dll (which is needed by L"Z:\\home\\jerrymcfarts\\.wine\\drive_c\\Program Files\\MicroProse\\X-COM Collector's Edition\\UFODefense\\UFO Defense.exe") not found err:module:import_dll Library ole32.dll (which is needed by L"c:\\windows\\system\\ddraw.dll") not found err:module:import_dll Library DDRAW.dll (which is needed by L"Z:\\home\\jerrymcfarts\\.wine\\drive_c\\Program Files\\MicroProse\\X-COM Collector's Edition\\UFODefense\\UFO Defense.exe") not found err:module:import_dll Library ole32.dll (which is needed by L"c:\\windows\\system\\dsound.dll") not found err:module:import_dll Library DSOUND.dll (which is needed by L"Z:\\home\\jerrymcfarts\\.wine\\drive_c\\Program Files\\MicroProse\\X-COM Collector's Edition\\UFO Defense\\UFO Defense.exe") not found err:module:import_dll Library ole32.dll (which is needed by L"c:\\windows\\system\\dinput.dll") not found err:module:import_dll Library DINPUT.dll (which is needed by L"Z:\\home\\jerrymcfarts\\.wine\\drive_c\\Program Files\\MicroProse\\X-COM Collector's Edition\\UFO Defense\\UFO Defense.exe") not found err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"Z:\\home\\jerrymcfarts\\.wine\\drive_c\\Program Files\\MicroProse\\X-COM Collector's Edition\\UFO Defense\\UFO Defense.exe" failed, status c0000135

So i am guessing that something isn't loaded yet, but i don't know what.

When i was using Gnome, i did NOT start up

gdm

because it says it is already running. but I start up the graphical shell

nautilus /

then

kwin

and this also does'nt work.. am i missing something?

thank you for reading,
Bryon

Perhaps wine supports only X :0.0

Maybe..

OK I made a nice tutorial on that, and I can't speak for other distros, since I am useing Ubuntu but i found this command:

gdmflexiserver

This starts an automatic second X-Server. Very Cool!! Check it out! let me know if the other distros have this feature, i am guessing that anyone with GDM will have it.

Okay this works great to switch displays when playing ET. My problem now is that I get the error:The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
Warning: Symbol map for key <ESC> redefined
Using last definition for conflicting fields

This repeats for 20 or so different keys then it says:

Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server

What I find is that in ET for example, my mousewheel doesn't work anymore. I'm sure it has something to do with redefining keys or something in the new x-display or needing to load a new keymap or something but I have no idea. Any ideas?

Sorry I personally haven't had that problem.. is this the first time you cross over to your normal desktop? or is this when going back to the game ET?

only trouble i have lately is when I switch my screen turns black and it freezes and I have to reboot. Which is really annoying. I believe i have a bad graphics card. But I know that if I set the resolution the same as the Desktop then it doesn't have to work as hard when switching it does it less.

this is random though. so i believe it is my graphics card.

Haven't seen it mentioned so try ctrl-alt-backspace
that should kill your current x session and xdk should restart it.

The must have for me is Red Orchestra. It's an awesome WW2 mod for UT2004, ET just leaves a dirty taste in my mouth now, there's even has a 64bit version! linux truly rocks!!!
check it here: http://redorchestra.clanservers.com
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