Re: x and virtual consoles
On 8/4/19, Ed <ed-debian@s5h.net> wrote:
> For years I would happily ctrl-alt-f<1-6> for an additional x.org
> session by running 'startx' and another window manager. Until now-ish.
>
> The way to reproduce the problem is as follows:
>
> 1. log in via lightdm/gdm
> 2. switch to a text console
> 3. run startx and use the window manager for a moment or two
> 4. switch back to first session
>
> At this point you should be presented with the default login screen
> after the x session crashed.
>
> What I have observed is that x sessions started from a text console can
> cooperate with each other, it seems limited to lightdm/gdm logins only.
>
> Something happened between jobs which meant I didn't need to run several
> user accounts at once. It may have been introduced during Jessie or
> Stretch.
>
> Am I alone, or do other people have this issue also? Am I doing multi
> GUI wrong, is there a modern way to do this that has slipped past me
> without noticing?
Hi, Ed.. Am not having the bestest of "cognitive" days (so the tech
aspect is just out of reach overhead), but I can comment a little. I
remember being able to have two full graphical sessions running, each
on a different [console]. I tried to do it a few months ago because of
some reason I actually needed it finally... and it didn't work.
It didn't work just now, either. It crashed again. The blurb that I
caught and that I could still remember while switching between
consoles was that it would send feedback to
~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.1.log.
If that's true, it ends with:
"Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file."
Successfully? Maybe it just means that it didn't hang permanently and
that it closed out without leaving any loose ends. The date stamp on
that file is appropriate for when I just tried it.
Then I got to thinking.. I next tried root and a different regular
user account, and both worked fine. Maybe I'm just remembering wrong
about past experiences.
It's possible I never tried to open two sessions of the *same* User
until very recently. If I did go that second console route for any
real purpose, it would have most likely been about accessing root for
a few seconds for whatever reason. That would explain why my memory is
that things always worked.
The first time I ever would have tried it at all would have been out
of curiosity as to whether or not two graphical interfaces were even
possible at the same time... since there ARE additional consoles just
hanging around doing nothin'. :)
Kind of make sense that it would, maybe should crash for the same
User. Seems like being signed in as the same person twice might,
likely would cause conflicts of some kind. Maybe there's a "lockfile"
situation of some type keeping the same User from signing in twice?
OR NOT. :)
Have fun!
Cindy :)
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Cindy-Sue Causey
Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA
* runs with birdseed *
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