[arch-general] browser and tty

[Mark Lee]

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On 03/25/2014 01:23 PM, Jason Plum wrote:
> 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 <arnaud.gaboury at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
>> 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_workspaces>;
that seems to be the correct behavior.

You are assigning chromium to be launched on tty1.

Regards,
Mark
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