Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2018 16:59:50 +0100 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> 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: <CACDfs3qSdo6cS0F-DVMq2RDMsm-ktBc53k-xNwYwzex1X915-g@mail.gmail.com> <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>
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On Wed, 1 Aug 2018 09:43:24 +0700 Victor Sudakov <vas@mpeks.tomsk.su> 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 <steve@sohara.org>
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