Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2018 18:23:33 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Victor Sudakov <vas@mpeks.tomsk.su> Cc: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" <steve@sohara.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alternative to x11/gnome3 ? Message-ID: <20180808182333.5d5b2a68.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20180808161156.GA66626@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> <20180801165950.6bb77eabf97c862866d13ecf@sohara.org> <20180808161156.GA66626@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru>
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On Wed, 8 Aug 2018 23:11:56 +0700, Victor Sudakov wrote: > Steve O'Hara-Smith 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. > > No, this is not the way it works on Linux. Linux users don't run > startx from a text session, nor do they switch between GUI sessions > with Ctrl-Alt-Fn. They click "Switch user" and the graphical login > screen appears where you can get authenticated. > > Moreove, x11/gnome3 works the same way on FreeBSD. My question is if > there is another desktop environment (not as bloated as gnome3) which > can switch users the same way. This is what Gnome 2 on FreeBSD could definitely do. Is there a chance to use Gnome 2 instead of Cinnamon or Mate (because even they are Gnome 2 forks, they do _not_ seem to include this specific functionality). > > 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. > > Some black magic in x11/gnome3 does it. I would like it in Mate or > some other more lightweight DE. Have you checked Cinnamon, the other Gnome 2 fork? I haven't tried it. Mate works sufficiently well (as a Gnome 2 replacement that isn't the abomination of Gnome 3), but it doesn't include the user switching functionality, at least I've been unable to find it... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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