Fulko Hew composed on 2025-02-28 09:02 (UTC-0500):
> Roger Heflin wrote:
> I have never seen 2 X sessions with the same graphics hardware work
>> successfully.
> Now, I haven't had the need to do it in a few years, but 20 years ago,
> I did it ALL the time. But then again, it was mostly on SCO OpenDesktop.
> There, I just had to say 'startx' on another VT and it would start.
> On Linux, I always needed to remember the extra needed command line options.
It used to work:
# inxi -S
System:
Host: gb970 Kernel: 4.4.14-200.fc22.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64
Console: pty pts/4 Distro: Fedora 22 (Twenty Two)
# ps -A | grep Xorg
745 tty7 00:00:01 Xorg
1165 tty4 00:00:00 Xorg
#
# inxi -S
System:
Host: g5eas Kernel: 4.12.14-200.fc25.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64
Console: pty pts/4 Distro: Fedora 25 (Twenty Five)
# ps -A | grep Xorg
864 tty7 00:00:06 Xorg
1275 tty6 00:00:07 Xorg
#
# inxi -S
System:
Host: gx27b Kernel: 5.0.16-100.fc28.i686 arch: i686 bits: 32
Console: pty pts/4 Distro: Fedora 28 (Twenty Eight)
# ps -A | grep Xorg
765 tty7 00:00:10 Xorg
1163 tty4 00:00:06 Xorg
#
# inxi -S
System:
Host: gx27b Kernel: 5.3.6-100.fc29.i686 arch: i686 bits: 32
Console: pty pts/4 Distro: Fedora 29 (Twenty Nine)
# ps -A | grep Xorg
850 tty7 00:00:09 Xorg
1247 tty5 00:00:08 Xorg
#
I tried with F30 & F32 and get same failure as with F41.
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