On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 6:39 PM, Jakub Klinkovský <j.l.k@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On 25.03.14 at 18:18, arnaud gaboury 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. > > AFAIK, systemd does not (yet) support multi-session correctly - but this is > mostly irrelevant, unless you want to use dbus. > > Anyway, I don't think this is supported at all - what would be the expected > behaviour when you run the same browser profile on both tty1 and tty2 ? > What would happen when file conflict arises (same profile means both instances > use the same directory for data)? > > -- > jlk Wrt firefox, try running 'firefox -P' and pick a new profile. 'firefox -no-remote' may help too.
