Re: x and virtual consoles
On 2019-08-04, Ed <ed-debian@s5h.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> 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.
>
>
> 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.
Is this related to this (I can't really understand what you're saying
here, actually, though everybody else seems to, but what the hell):
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/46655
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/10/msg00603.html
If not, disregard (there's not really any help in those links I must
admit, either).
> 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?
>
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