Re: systemd (was ... Re: Article on swift, responsive computers)
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On 06/17/2014 10:38 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> On 06/16/2014 09:43 AM, Brian wrote:
>> On the other hand, not running X on the console you started it from
>> with startx brings a raft of other problems.
>
> How so? Unless you are referring specifically to running under
> systemd? Under Wheezy and SysV my wife, daughter and I are each
> logged into separate console vts. We each have an alias to startx
> which loads X on vt7 for me, vt8 for my wife and vt9 for my daughter.
> Works like a charm. We are each just a ctl-alt-fx away from our own
> programs and configurations. We always know exactly where "our"
> stuff is, since that is independent of the console that we log on to.
And you don't have X running on the console which you started it from -
unless the console where you ran the 'startx' command was vt7, vt8, or
vt9, respectively.
> If that is going to change under systemd then that is a reason for me
> to avoid the switch if at all possible.
According to my understanding from the discussions I've read: under
systemd, if you run 'startx' with no options from vt1, it will cause X
to launch on vt1 - whereas under sysvinit, doing that will cause X to
launch on vt7.
If you're explicitly specifying the vt to use in your startx command
(which I think you may be, from your mention of launch aliases for the
different X sessions), I *think* that should continue to work, but I'm
not remotely an expert on this. I would strongly advise you to read up
on the subject, or even (if opportunity permits) to experiment, e.g. in
a VM.
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The Wanderer
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