On 11 June 2012 01:51, Sudaraka Wijesinghe <sudaraka.wijesinghe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 06/11/12 06:00, Sébastien le Preste de Vauban wrote: >> El 10/06/12 20:18, John Briggs escribió: >>> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 07:35:45AM +0800, 逸冰欧阳 wrote: >>>> I also have the same problem. And remember that Ubuntu, Fedora work >>>> well, >>>> so I wonder whether it is a bug. >>>> On Jun 11, 2012 4:21 AM, "Mateusz Loskot" <mateusz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 10 June 2012 20:35, Sébastien le Preste de Vauban >>>>> <ulpianosonsi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>>>> El 10/06/12 14:11, Mateusz Loskot escribió: >>>>>>> On 10 June 2012 19:03, Javier Vasquez <j.e.vasquez.v@xxxxxxxxx> >>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>> On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Mateusz Loskot >>>>>>>> <mateusz@xxxxxxxxxx> >>>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>>> I have been observing strange issues when I switch between X and >>>>>>>>> TTY. >>>>>>>>> [...] >>>>>>>> I started noticing this same thing since last year (though don't >>>>>>>> remember when exactly). Never asked cause the work around is >>>>>>>> simple, >>>>>>>> the TTY from which startx was run is considered "dead" to me, I just >>>>>>>> don't use it once in X. >>>>>>> Yes, you are right it's not a very disturbing issue. >>>>>>> I was just curious if it is known problem and perhaps there is a >>>>> solution. >>>>>> I have a similar problem: >>>>>> >>>>>> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47277 >>>>> Nice one, I'm going to subscribe to this issue. Thanks! >>>>> >>>>> Best regards, >>>>> -- >>>>> Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net >>>>> >>> What bug? >>> The TTY running X is busy running the xinit/xsession process, until you >>> kill that process you shouldn't be able to get the command line prompt to >>> run another program. The only way to overcome this shortcoming would >>> be to >>> run xinit in the background, which I wouldn't reccomend. >>> >>> Regards >>> >>> John >>> >> Well it happens to me with any TTY, not just the one running X. >> >> > > I haven't experienced this issue, but then I don't switch TTY that often. > > I was just wondering if some of the scenarios mentioned in here is due > to the Left vs Right ALT key usage. (It has to be Left ALT if anyone > didn't know) I do left ALT only. Also, in i3wm I use winkey as the modifier key, not the left ALT. Best regards, -- Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net
