On Sat, 2020-11-28 at 15:50 +0000, Vishal Subramanyam wrote: > Hey, > I reinstalled Debian (bullseye) today and I noticed two changes. > Earlier, both tty1 and tty2 were graphical > consoles with GNOME running. Everything was pretty smooth and I could > switch back and forth between > the consoles easily. > But now, there's only one graphical console running on tty1 (Ctrl- > Alt-F1) and the rest are character consoles. > I don't know what resulted in this change. (Was there some update > between yesterday and today?) > The problem is that whenever I switch to another tty (Ctrl-Shift-FX > where X !=1) and I come back, I am > "logged" out of my session in tty1. I am asked to enter my password > again and the Debian logo is seen at the > bottom, which is not the case if a session is "locked". When I lock > my screen, I would see a simple digital clock > which I don't see when I come back from another tty. Also, my > programs aren't closed when I come back to > tty1. > I suspect this has something to do with GDM. Any help? > > Vishal For some unknown reason, after a few reboots, the problem went away and I am back to my original configuration of having two graphical consoles when I press Ctrl-Alt-F1 and Ctrl-Alt-F2, and I don't get "logged" out anymore.
Vishal
