11 Sep
2021
11 Sep
'21
4:23 p.m.
On Saturday 11 September 2021 05:36:41 am Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
Anno domini 2021 Sat, 11 Sep 12:28:43 +0200
mb850063(a)proximus.be scripsit:
You’d have to get one of the dev’s to answer why your i386 can do it. (also
they’ll probably need to know what the i386 is running for OS, the different
DE versions, and if it had some special setup?)
Doing multiscreen desktop starts is somewhat risky based on having multiple of
the same user accessing the same files and potentially corrupting or
overwriting them (or just having the annoyance of not being able to save an
edit if decent file locking is in place). [Probably having TDE and KDE
installed at the same time would cause further disruption as I’m not exactly
sure TDE still doesn’t use some files in the KDE name space? Again, that’d
need to be answered by a TDE dev.]
multi desktop starts is also generally used with multiple graphics cards (and
monitors) for something like a multi-user server. And generally in that case
there is some logic added to logins such that a user can only login once at
any given time. That went away years/decades ago though as it’s a pita and
thin client front ends became cheap. (Actually, based upon wife’s work, I’m
not sure that thin clients are used anymore, corps seem to just dump a full
up PC on a desk and use a central server for file storage.)
no real help really, just some background, best,
Michael
Without TDM, this is : starting the XWindows trinity desktop form bash
with the startx command, there is no problem, I can start various
Desktops using Ctrl+Alt+Fx, where x is 1, 2, 3,....
If i enable TDM, i can only strat one session from TDM, keyboarding
CXtrl+Alt+F1, i get the computer's starting log, with F2 or 3,..., i get
a blank screen.
On my i386 PC, i don't have the problem : with TDM installed, i still can
access multiscreen desktop starts, for various users and also root login.
Any hint ?
This is how X is supposed to work. Without XDM, you can do whatever you
like. With any XDM/TDM/..., you have by default exactly one *DM which
starts one X session (whatever that may be). When you configure your
computer for multiseat/multimonitor/whatever, you can have multiple *DM
managing different sets of hardware resources.
So if you want conlole by default and no *DM, then don't install (or
unistall) *DM adn you'll be fine :)