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Re: x and virtual consoles



On Sun, 4 Aug 2019 18:36:44 -0400
Cindy Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 8/4/19, nektarios <nektarios@mail.nektarioskatakis.xyz> wrote:
> > On Sun, 4 Aug 2019 21:01:57 +0100
> > Ed <ed-debian@s5h.net> wrote:  
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> 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?  
> 
> 
> After sending mine off here, I re-read and thought,, *OH, man, I fully
> missed the point.*
> 
> But I *was* able to get a GUI of *some* sort. I'm on Bullseye with
> xfce4 and ALL that it draws in.
> 
> I've never tried to get anything to interact. It's always about get
> in, un-bork something, and get back out.
> 
> Messaging between the sessions ala the way we were able to with AS/400
> systems mid-1990's comes to mind as a way to test that interaction
> ability. I've come across references to packages that MIGHT do that,
> but I've never had an excuse to download and test drive it/them.
> 
> 
> > Indeed the problem seems reproducible for debian Stretch with sddm
> > display manager.  
> 
> 
> I'll have to give it another shot with those specifics you all are
> saying, but today's definitely not that day *cognitively*. :)
> 
> I've seen where some of you all write about having even more
> minimalist systems than my bare bones debootstraps. I've tried going
> that route and just haven't found something that fits what I need.
> Might just be about adaptation and the lack of being able to do so
> under extreme duress/stress.
> 
> 
> > The only logs appearing are from KDE applications (nothing in X11
> > logs): ```
> > Aug  4 22:40:41 buldozer org.kde.kpasswdserver[958]: The X11
> > connection broke (error 1). Did the X11 server die?
> > Aug  4 22:40:41 buldozer org.kde.kuiserver[958]: kuiserver: Fatal
> > IO error: client killed
> > Aug  4 22:40:41 buldozer org.a11y.atspi.Registry[1251]: XIO:  fatal
> > IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0"
> > Aug  4 22:40:41 buldozer org.kde.kglobalaccel[958]: The X11
> > connection broke (error 1). Did the X11 server die?
> > Aug  4 22:40:41 buldozer org.a11y.atspi.Registry[1251]:       after
> > 947 requests (947 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
> > Aug  4 22:40:41 buldozer org.kde.KScreen[958]: The X11 connection
> > broke (error 1). Did the X11 server die?
> > ```
> >
> > Unfortunately my PC even worse gets stuck after that so I cant
> > really tell if X11 is running.
> > I hadn't used multiple x sessions for sometime (after I got used to
> > multiple desktops) but this seems an issue.  
> 
> 
> Mine referenced going to ~/.local/share/xorg/* for feedback. That's
> where I did find what appeared to be tinely appropriate for my shot at
> this.
> 
> Started to joke that I'm grateful mine at least didn't do that (get
> stuck), BUT... it DID take it n extra long while to calm down when I
> got back over to F7. That was after I successfully logged in as root
> AND "elf" (instead of "candycane") in full xfce4 graphical interface.
> 
> I'm on extremely limited hardware resources right now. 1GB RAM memory
> so I *a-sumed* that was probably what the momentary hangup was there
> when coming back up after those two success stories occurred.
> 
> I'll have to try doing more of what it sounds like you all are doing.
> I downloaded several different "window managers" (versus "desktop
> environments") just two or three weeks ago but then came back over to
> ol' familiar and friendly Xfce4. Thank you to its Developers!
> 
> I need to order a new hard drive (TODAY, yikes). With this thread in
> mind, I'll create a couple extra partitions dedicated to the "window
> managers" part of this thread when it's time.
> 
> Cindy :)



The xorg log file doesn't seem to have any kind of error in it.
At [1501.620] I start the new session but shows nothing. You can find it
attached.

Nektarios.

Attachment: Xorg.1.log.old
Description: application/trash


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