On 2019-08-04, Ed <ed-deb...@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
