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Re: x and virtual consoles

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On 2019-08-05 13:11+0200, deloptes wrote:
> IMO you can not run multiple X sessions from the same user. I am not 
> 100% sure, but I can imagine what would happen with the session 
> manager.

I have done in the past, one 'ed' would run xfce and another would run 
evilwm. However, the majority of use would be from 'ed' and a different 
user account for working from home in.

> So if your first session is on vt7 (CTRL) ALT+F7 the next one will be 
> on
> (CTRL) ALT+F8.

This is what I think is expected now if you want tty1 and ctrl-alt-f1 to 
match:

  /usr/bin/startx -display :1 -- :1 vt1

> I have used this only with different users and from the login manager 
> or
> from the desktop by starting new user session.

How do you run two login managers though so that you can have two users 
share the same computer without having to log out? In other words, 
whilst I go and make dinner I want to allow someone else to sit here, 
without having to shut applications down?

> Doing it from the same user makes no sense IMO. Why would you do this?

Well, in the weird times when I did, it was a different desktop 
environment (evilwm for code, xfce for web browsing and mail). Avoids 
bells and notifications from disturbing me. I'm not doing that these 
days, now I just don't want to switch user spaces. If it auto-locked, 
that'd be nice, too, I seem to remember that switching would auto-lock.

-- 
Best regards,
Ed http://www.s5h.net/

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x and virtual consoles Ed <ed-debian@s5h.net> - 2019-08-04 22:10 +0200
  Re: x and virtual consoles Cindy Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2019-08-05 00:10 +0200
  Re: x and virtual consoles nektarios <nektarios@mail.nektarioskatakis.xyz> - 2019-08-05 00:10 +0200
    Re: x and virtual consoles Cindy Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2019-08-05 00:40 +0200
    Re: x and virtual consoles Ed <ed-debian@s5h.net> - 2019-08-05 08:30 +0200
  Re: x and virtual consoles Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2019-08-05 02:10 +0200
    Re: x and virtual consoles Ed Neville <ed-debian@s5h.net> - 2019-08-05 08:30 +0200
  Re: x and virtual consoles Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-08-05 12:00 +0200
    Re: x and virtual consoles Ed <ed-debian@s5h.net> - 2019-08-05 23:00 +0200
  Re: x and virtual consoles deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-08-05 13:20 +0200
    Re: x and virtual consoles Ed <ed-debian@s5h.net> - 2019-08-05 23:00 +0200
      Re: x and virtual consoles David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-08-06 00:10 +0200
        Re: x and virtual consoles Ed <ed-debian@s5h.net> - 2019-08-06 08:20 +0200
          Re: x and virtual consoles David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-08-06 16:20 +0200
      Re: x and virtual consoles Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2019-08-06 08:10 +0200
        Re: x and virtual consoles Ed <ed-debian@s5h.net> - 2019-08-06 08:20 +0200
          Re: x and virtual consoles Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-08-06 09:40 +0200
            Re: x and virtual consoles deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-08-06 14:50 +0200
              Re: x and virtual consoles Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-08-06 15:30 +0200
                Re: x and virtual consoles Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-08-06 15:50 +0200
                Re: x and virtual consoles Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-08-06 16:40 +0200
                Re: x and virtual consoles Ed Neville <ed-debian@s5h.net> - 2019-08-06 21:00 +0200
            Re: x and virtual consoles Marc Shapiro <marcnshap@gmail.com> - 2019-09-10 08:40 +0200
  Re: x and virtual consoles Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-08-05 13:40 +0200
    Re: x and virtual consoles Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2019-08-05 17:20 +0200
      Re: x and virtual consoles Ed <ed-debian@s5h.net> - 2019-08-05 19:20 +0200
      Re: x and virtual consoles Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-08-05 20:30 +0200

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