On Tue 17 Jun 2014 at 06:25:01 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 05:43:18PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > > On the other hand, not running X on the console you started it from with > > startx brings a raft of other problems. > > Well, I typed startx in tty4 and it started in tty3, so it isn't running > in the console I started it from anyway, if I am understanding you.
If you had upower installed and were running Xfce you would find the "Suspend" button greyed out. This is because X on tty4 doesn't inherit the login conditions of tty3. It may not matter to you (it doesn't matter to me) but that's how systemd works. From the man himself: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2014-May/198927.html Actually, you get the same thing on Wheezy with sysvinit but without consolekit. The solution is possibly easier with systemd startx -- vt4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140616185758.gh17...@copernicus.demon.co.uk
