Re: Getting "logged" out of GNOME on tty1 if switching to other ttys (Wayland)
On Sat, 2020-11-28 at 15:50 +0000, Vishal Subramanyam wrote:
> Hey,
> I reinstalled Debian (bullseye) today and I noticed two changes.
> Earlier, both tty1 and tty2 were graphical
> consoles with GNOME running. Everything was pretty smooth and I could
> switch back and forth between
> the consoles easily.
> But now, there's only one graphical console running on tty1 (Ctrl-
> Alt-F1) and the rest are character consoles.
> I don't know what resulted in this change. (Was there some update
> between yesterday and today?)
> The problem is that whenever I switch to another tty (Ctrl-Shift-FX
> where X !=1) and I come back, I am
> "logged" out of my session in tty1. I am asked to enter my password
> again and the Debian logo is seen at the
> bottom, which is not the case if a session is "locked". When I lock
> my screen, I would see a simple digital clock
> which I don't see when I come back from another tty. Also, my
> programs aren't closed when I come back to
> tty1.
> I suspect this has something to do with GDM. Any help?
>
> Vishal
For some unknown reason, after a few reboots, the problem went away and
I am back to my original configuration of having two graphical consoles
when I press Ctrl-Alt-F1 and Ctrl-Alt-F2, and I don't get "logged" out
anymore.
Vishal
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