Re: x and virtual consoles

From	Curt <curty@free.fr>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: x and virtual consoles
Date	2019-08-05 12:00 +0200
Message-ID	<yrHWx-3ju-9@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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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?
>


-- 
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” 
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

Thread

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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