Re: Exiting from X leaves screen blank if x started with startx

From	"J.O. Aho" <user@example.net>
Newsgroups	alt.os.linux.mageia, alt.os.linux
Subject	Re: Exiting from X leaves screen blank if x started with startx
Date	2018-08-27 06:42 +0200
Message-ID	<fuhdq5F45l9U1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
References	<plrkp1$2cl$1@dont-email.me> <fufa5mFo03vU1@mid.individual.net> <plv4on$ero$1@dont-email.me>

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On 8/26/18 11:06 PM, William Unruh wrote:
> On 2018-08-26, J.O. Aho <user@example.net> wrote:
>> On 8/25/18 3:15 PM, William Unruh wrote:
>>> I am running mageia 6 with sddm and plasma as the desktop manager,
>>> My wife and I both use the computer, and since I am usually first on,
>>> she starts by going to a console screen (alt-ctl-F3 say) logging in and
>>> running startx -- :1
>>> That brings up X, a bit hesitantly (Ie, it seems to take longer than it
>>> should) but it works. When she logs out of X either with alt-ctrl-Bksp
>>> twice or via the logout option from the desktop, there is a completely
>>> black screen left over (well it seems to have dark grey stripes which
>>> can change barely visible). Ie, it does not return to the console as it
>>> should. If I then do alt-ctrl-F2, alt-ctrl-F3 the console comes up
>>> again. Ie it seems that the logout did not quite finish from X.
>>>
>>> (Since I logged on from the sddm greeter, if I do alt-ctrl-Bksp twice,
>>> the system brings up the greeter again.)
>>
>> simple solution, set a desktop manage to start as default and set that
>> startx can only started by privileged user.
> 
> ?? I want her to be able to log on with a desktop, even if I am already
> logged on. Her loggin on is not the problem. Her system being left with
> a blank screen when she logs off is the problem.

Either she starts a new seat with "switch user" from your session or you
configure the desktop manager by default at least to start two seats.

-- 

 //Aho

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Exiting from X leaves screen blank if x started with startx William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2018-08-25 13:15 +0000
  Re: Exiting from X leaves screen blank if x started with startx "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2018-08-26 11:28 +0200
    Re: Exiting from X leaves screen blank if x started with startx William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2018-08-26 21:06 +0000
      Re: Exiting from X leaves screen blank if x started with startx "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2018-08-27 06:42 +0200
      Re: Exiting from X leaves screen blank if x started with startx Maurice <maurice@nomail.afraid.org> - 2018-08-28 10:15 +0000
        Re: Exiting from X leaves screen blank if x started with startx William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2018-08-28 14:41 +0000
          Re: Exiting from X leaves screen blank if x started with startx Maurice <maurice@nomail.afraid.org> - 2018-08-28 16:23 +0000
            Re: Exiting from X leaves screen blank if x started with startx William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2018-08-28 17:05 +0000
              Re: Exiting from X leaves screen blank if x started with startx "Cybe R. Wizard" <cybe_r_wizard@WizardsTower.invalid> - 2018-08-28 14:32 -0500
                Re: Exiting from X leaves screen blank if x started with startx William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2018-08-28 20:52 +0000
                Re: Exiting from X leaves screen blank if x started with startx "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2018-08-29 07:00 +0200
                Re: Exiting from X leaves screen blank if x started with startx William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2018-08-29 12:17 +0000
                Re: Exiting from X leaves screen blank if x started with startx "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2018-08-29 22:24 +0200
                Re: Exiting from X leaves screen blank if x started with startx William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2018-08-29 23:32 +0000
                Re: Exiting from X leaves screen blank if x started with startx "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2018-08-30 07:12 +0200
                Re: Exiting from X leaves screen blank if x started with startx William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2018-08-30 05:41 +0000
                Re: Exiting from X leaves screen blank if x started with startx "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2018-08-31 06:55 +0200
                Re: Exiting from X leaves screen blank if x started with startx Maurice <maurice@nomail.afraid.org> - 2018-08-31 10:07 +0000
                Re: Exiting from X leaves screen blank if x started with startx "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2018-09-01 09:22 +0200
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                Re: Exiting from X leaves screen blank if x started with startx William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2018-08-29 12:22 +0000
                Re: Exiting from X leaves screen blank if x started with startx HASM <hasm@example.invalid> - 2018-08-29 05:49 -0700
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                Re: Exiting from X leaves screen blank if x started with startx William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2018-08-29 23:31 +0000
                Re: Exiting from X leaves screen blank if x started with startx Maurice <maurice@nomail.afraid.org> - 2018-08-31 10:04 +0000
                Re: Exiting from X leaves screen blank if x started with startx Maurice <maurice@nomail.afraid.org> - 2018-08-31 10:01 +0000
                Re: Exiting from X leaves screen blank if x started with startx Maurice <maurice@nomail.afraid.org> - 2018-08-29 16:54 +0000
                Re: Exiting from X leaves screen blank if x started with startx William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2018-08-29 17:18 +0000
          Re: Exiting from X leaves screen blank if x started with startx "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> - 2018-08-28 18:23 -0400

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