On Saturday 11 September 2021 05:36:41 am Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > Anno domini 2021 Sat, 11 Sep 12:28:43 +0200 > mb850063@xxxxxxxxxxx scripsit: > > > > 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 :) 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 ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
