On 25.03.14 at 13:26, Mark Lee wrote:

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On 03/25/2014 01:23 PM, Jason Plum wrote:

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Verify there is no running instance of Chromium in any other session, as it spawns children withing its original session. I have seen this happen with X2go as well.

Jason Plum WarheadsSE

On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 1:18 PM, arnaud gaboury wrote:

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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.

Salutations,

According to the Arch Wiki : https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/I3#Launching_programs_on_specific_works...; that seems to be the correct behavior.

You are assigning chromium to be launched on tty1.

Regards, Mark

i3 workspace is *not* tty! See http://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#_using_workspaces

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According to the Arch Wiki : https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/I3#Launching_programs_on_specific_works...; that seems to be the correct behavior.

You are assigning chromium to be launched on tty1.

No, I am assigning chromium to be launched on WORKSPACE 1 !!

I apologize I just caught the error myself as your email came in. Does i3 require xorg-xserver, and if that's the case, is there already a running instance of the xserver on TTY1(you mention you have mate).

Even if I boot directly into i3 in tty1, chromium is not started on workspace 1. Furthermore, my keyboard is US, not the one I use. Part of my /etc/X11/xorg.conf Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" Option "XkbLayout" "ch" Option "XkbModel" "pc104" Option "XkbVariant" "fr" EndSection All my issues seem tied to a xserver issue in fact.

The 'assign' directive will not start Chromium, you would need to combine it with 'exec'. Or have I misunderstood again?

That is OK now with adding the exec line

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Furthermore, my keyboard is US, not the one I use. Part of my /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" Option "XkbLayout" "ch" Option "XkbModel" "pc104" Option "XkbVariant" "fr" EndSection

All my issues seem tied to a xserver issue in fact.

Is it /etc/X11/xorg.conf or some file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ ? This is a long shot, but there might be a difference...

it is part of my xorg.conf. No xorg.conf.d. Shall I

On 25.03.14 at 18:56, arnaud gaboury wrote:

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i3 workspace is *not* tty! See http://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#_using_workspaces

No ?? really? Are you joking ?

I'm certain. i3 workspaces are an implementation of "virtual desktop" [1], as Wikipedia calls it. I'm quite sure that MATE has its own implementation, but it is likely very different from i3's. On the other hand, ttys are "virtual consoles" [2], which is similar concept, but on lower level. The general rule is that one X server cannot span multiple ttys. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_desktop [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_console -- jlk

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On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 7:09 PM, Jakub Klinkovský wrote:

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On 25.03.14 at 18:56, arnaud gaboury wrote:

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i3 workspace is *not* tty! See http://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#_using_workspaces

No ?? really? Are you joking ?

I'm certain. i3 workspaces are an implementation of "virtual desktop" [1], as

It seems that we don-t have same kind of joke. I know tty is not i3 workspace.

After a reboot, now I boot directly into i3. Fine, chromium is running . But my keyboard is still wrong. Any suggestion

Salutations, I just tested out i3 myself, and if you launch it with startx (from xorg-xinit), I don't have any issues launching chromium in the same TTY. See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Keyboard_Configuration_in_Xorg Regards, Mark -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlMxyO8ACgkQZ/Z80n6+J/ayRQEAiHDFk0KWUlq9aEcAocHvEIDz FEMSVSOy8dO2Z7jIrO4A/1VeyaXo4jLr8sPe4fF8Qe5cYg/hW54nwQ/FPDrNFgsb =DihJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 7:20 PM, Mark Lee wrote:

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I just tested out i3 myself, and if you launch it with startx (from xorg-xinit), I don't have any issues launching chromium in the same TTY.

See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Keyboard_Configuration_in_Xorg

chromium or firefox is starting fine now.

from i3 config exec firefox-aurora assign [instance="firefox-aurora"] 1

two issues remaining firefox starts on workspace 2 my keyboard is in US

Salutations, Try changing the line to : assign [class="firefox-aurora"] 1 I sent you a link on keyboard configuration in Xorg. Regards, Mark -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlMxzU8ACgkQZ/Z80n6+J/b2DwD/Q7Dklwh7Nj4gozmdIw2ieKMo c6v/WcQxHaRLK4KQlawBAJXFwufrjFjaoH5drcWBFvQUfmuHPG7h6vFpuMyb6pn7 =+nci -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

See the other post, and please keep try to keep the problem solving linear (as in "linear graph"), don't switch branches if possible.

Mutt and weechat are on my TODO list

On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 9:53 PM, Lieven Moors wrote:

On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 07:36:01PM +0100, arnaud gaboury wrote:

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See the other post, and please keep try to keep the problem solving linear (as in "linear graph"), don't switch branches if possible.

Mutt and weechat are on my TODO list

This is hilarious...

Not sure what is hilarious, but adding this line in .xinitrc let me with the correct keyboard maping: setxkbmap -model pc104 -layout ch -variant fr I do not see why it is needed as my .xorg already contains: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "keyboard0" Driver "kbd" Option "XkbModel" "pc104" Option "XkbLayout" "ch" Option "XkbVariant" "fr" EndSection As for firefox, these two lines starts firefox, BUT in workspace 2, as indicated in the i3 bar. exec firefox-aurora assign [instance="^firefox-aurora$"] 1

On 25.03.14 at 23:35, arnaud gaboury wrote:

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As for firefox, these two lines starts firefox, BUT in workspace 2, as indicated in the i3 bar.

exec firefox-aurora assign [instance="^firefox-aurora$"] 1

exec --no-startup-id i3-msg 'workspace 1; exec firefox-aurora' did the trick

Actually, looking at the above lines now, you should first 'assign' and then 'exec', which should be the last thing defined in the config. -- jlk

On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 6:39 PM, Jakub Klinkovský wrote:

On 25.03.14 at 18:18, arnaud gaboury wrote:

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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.