Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Andreas Kohlbach Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: GUI pauses when on TTY Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2023 21:37:22 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 40 Message-ID: <877cwe1iu5.fsf@usenet.ankman.de> References: <877cwf310a.fsf@usenet.ankman.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: reader01.eternal-september.org; posting-host="bbc44292d8bb7e5bb62e9222318214aa"; logging-data="217750"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18Y4/Z72yP9Lmz4GhwG0vDM" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:r6K0Gkh0w50mmJ2HAO0nK/Jyhf0= sha1:WV5l1e3KHqKS8zIsZbx8Gsrtxi0= X-No-Archive: Yes Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:37136 On Sat, 18 Feb 2023 20:08:26 -0500, Dan Espen wrote: > > "Carlos E.R." writes: [...] >> This could be HAL/ConsoleKit/PolicyKit. Or could be the display >> manager doing it. > > I did: > > journalctl -f > > I got this when switching to a TTY: > > pipewire[1514]: spa.alsa: hw:0,7: Channels doesn't match (requested 8, got 2) > > Looks to me like something is redirecting sound production. Not entries here. Also none is /var/log/syslog (which looks very similar to the journalctl output otherwise). >> The way to avoid this is not using the TTY, but an xterm. > > Agree. A terminal session is better than a TTY is so many ways. Well, if I only needed text base stuff I could not run X at all. OK, then there is not problem with suspending stuff, as X doesn't exist. In fact on the old computer I demoted to a server, I removed X, which removed most if not all of all X related stuff (Firefox as one example), freeing 20 GB or more. I could still use it to write in the usenet, mails or use text browsers. May be this is because when I first got Linux in the mid/late 90s there was not enough space on the hard disk (most occupied by Windows 95) to also install X11. Thus I learned to use Linux with the command line only. Call it nostalgia. :-D -- Andreas