[arch-general] Switching betweenX and TTY freezes WM

Mateusz Loskot mateusz at loskot.net
Sun Jun 10 20:48:24 EDT 2012


On 11 June 2012 01:35, Don deJuan <donjuansjiz at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 06/10/2012 05:30 PM, Sébastien le Preste de Vauban wrote:
>> El 10/06/12 20:18, John Briggs escribió:
>>>
>>> What bug?
>>> The TTY running X is busy running the xinit/xsession process, until you
>>> kill that process you shouldn't be able to get the command line prompt to
>>> run another program. The only way to overcome this shortcoming would
>>> be to
>>> run xinit in the background, which I wouldn't reccomend.
>>>
>>>
>> Well it happens to me with any TTY, not just the one running X.
>>
>
> Same here, I thought everyone had stated it is switching to any TTY from X
> or from some other TTY back to X and this will occur.

Perhaps it's a random random nature of this issue, that makes it occur
for me only when I interact with TTY from which I run xinit.

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