Re: x and virtual consoles
Ed composed on 2019-08-04 21:01 (UTC+0100):
> 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?
Works on 32 bit Buster on host m7ncd here, with one little glitch that Ctrl-Alt-F3
from vtty4 doesn't get me to the session running on vtty3, but Ctrl-Alt-F2 will
get me to vtty2, from which Ctrl-Alt-F3 does work as expected, as does Ctrl-Alt-F4
from the session on vtty3. Wierd.
However, your description I do have memory of from last winter. The problem is my
memory currently lacks any connective dots between
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1663050
and any possible appearance in Debian months ago.
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