Verify there is no running instance of Chromium in any other session, as it spawns children withing its original session. I have seen this happen with X2go as well. Jason Plum WarheadsSE On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 1:18 PM, arnaud gaboury <arnaud.gaboury@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Dear list, > > I decided to get rid of my mate DE and go i3. Before I am testing my > settings on tty2 (Ctrl+Alt+F2) with a modify .xinitrc (exec i3). > > I have a weird behavior as regarding my web browser, could it be > chromium or firefox. > > On my i3 config. I have this line: > > assign [instance="^chromium$"] → 1 > > Unfortunately, when I log in on tty2, there is no chromium being > started. When I am back on tty1 (mate session), I find chromium being > opened. > Then, on tty2, if I start manually firefox, I can't as I am told > "firefox is already running". Indeed it is but on tty1. > > It seems like web browsers are "attached" to my tty1. > > Is there any reason for this behavior? Shall I modify anything to > start any web browser on tty2 ? > > Thank you for help. >
