From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Aug 1 17:00:15 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 812E21063791 for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2018 17:00:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com) Received: from s1-b0c6.socketlabs.email-od.com (s1-b0c6.socketlabs.email-od.com [142.0.176.198]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2D8DD7D64C for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2018 17:00:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=email-od.com;i=@email-od.com;s=dkim; c=relaxed/relaxed; q=dns/txt; t=1533142815; x=1535734815; h=content-transfer-encoding:content-type:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:message-id:subject:to:from:date:x-thread-info; bh=Hc4wAqKAvZbkuOzgYYvZK2uSUw3PzVRuRim04U6dVT8=; b=uIvahGIQBgszGRnJ066uJtP2Y3bdTkLTTwTRZoea0l6IaPRdcjfNzdXUbc3Kacdg8pxyYRSx5gHvXLiYlBnq6Bpmk5tGnAGgxTk0K4O7+wHnFH7LkMZDM68cz51iL0DWY6xy/8AeXCwaOpwRhtlV4+A3ZIeDB8b+3QPo5mkQYtc= X-Thread-Info: NDI1MC4xMi4xOTUwMDAwMDBlYzgzYTEuZnJlZWJzZC1xdWVzdGlvbnM9ZnJlZWJzZC5vcmc= Received: from r2.sg.in.socketlabs.com (r2.sg.in.socketlabs.com [142.0.179.12]) by mxsg2.email-od.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Wed, 1 Aug 2018 11:59:51 -0400 Received: from smtp.lan.sohara.org (EMTPY [89.127.62.20]) by r2.sg.in.socketlabs.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Wed, 1 Aug 2018 11:59:51 -0400 Received: from [192.168.63.1] (helo=steve.lan.sohara.org) by smtp.lan.sohara.org with smtp (Exim 4.91 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1fktXR-0008bg-L1 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 01 Aug 2018 15:59:49 +0000 Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2018 16:59:50 +0100 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alternative to x11/gnome3 ? Message-Id: <20180801165950.6bb77eabf97c862866d13ecf@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <20180801024324.GA20419@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> References: <20180511090813.GA21919@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> <1526039986.18202.5.camel@k1.com.br> <20180731014358.GA925@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> <20180731195608.40cee639.freebsd@edvax.de> <20180801024324.GA20419@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.24.32; amd64-portbld-freebsd11.1) X-Clacks-Overhead: "GNU Terry Pratchett" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.27 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2018 17:00:15 -0000 On Wed, 1 Aug 2018 09:43:24 +0700 Victor Sudakov wrote: > No, this is not the way it works, at least on Linux. I've researched > how it works on my son's Ubuntu. All programs of logged-in users > remain running, it's not done via storing program state, killing and > restoring them. In fact, every logged-in user has her own Xserver. > Only one Xserver at a time is "the current graphical console" and has > access to the video card, but they all are in the ps output. Running multiple X servers is easy enough - I used to do it quite a lot using startx, you just have to give each one a different display number, as long as there's a spare virtual console X will pick one and use it. You switch between them with Ctrl-Alt-Fn as normal. That doesn't secure the sessions though. For that the user switcher has to lock the current session and switch to the selected locked session or create a new one - and of course something has to disable normal virtual console switching to prevent leaving unlocked sessions lying around. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith