Starting gnome-session in a VNC session is impossible if it's already running on the console.
I can run gnome-panel on the VNC session, but that has lots of problems -- for example, the desktop switcher refuses to appear in the VNC session, and a panel that I have on the bottom-right corner of the (1024x768) screen in the VNC session makes the same panel on the (much bigger) console screen hop over to the same position which is now in the middle of the screen.
I've even gave up on any useful corner panel (reverted to the ancient Sawfish pager thingy instead) -- and there are still an annoying problem: every time the VNC session is closed, the panel is trying to resurrect itself on the console, which leads to an error dialog that there's a pannel there allready -- and requires clicking OK about 120 times for it to go away.
Is there any sane way to use Gnome on both my console and a separate VNC session?
(I don't believe that I'm the only one left that is crazy enough to have two sessions running on a single machine...)
On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 15:22 -0500, Eli Barzilay wrote:
(I don't believe that I'm the only one left that is crazy enough to have two sessions running on a single machine...)
No, actually we're planning this for Fedora 7
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Desktop/FastUserSwitching
as I've announced on fedora-devel-list some time ago. It sorta works in Rawhide with fusa, see
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=213121
except for the problems noted in that Wiki page.
David
David Zeuthen david@fubar.dk writes:
On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 15:22 -0500, Eli Barzilay wrote:
(I don't believe that I'm the only one left that is crazy enough to have two sessions running on a single machine...)
No, actually we're planning this for Fedora 7
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Desktop/FastUserSwitching
as I've announced on fedora-devel-list some time ago. It sorta works in Rawhide with fusa, see
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=213121
except for the problems noted in that Wiki page.
IIUC, this is about multiple sessions on a single machine owned by different users -- which is different than what I'm talking about. My problem is running multiple sessions (console + VNC) from a *single* user. The problem is that the gnome panel is trying its best to keep all instances connected: the geometry of one session leaks to others, and killing the panel in one session makes it want to restart itself in another.
Maybe my horribly stupid idea for a solution will demonstrate what I wanted: I tried running
HOME=~/.vnc gnome-session
to get my VNC gnome to be disconnected from the console session. It didn't work because there are many other communication channels which gnome components were using behind my back. (Unsurprisingly, this was a catastrophe on many other levels, but the idea should be clear...)
On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 23:51 -0500, Eli Barzilay wrote:
IIUC, this is about multiple sessions on a single machine owned by different users -- which is different than what I'm talking about.
Yea, I realized that after sending the mail, sorry.
My problem is running multiple sessions (console + VNC) from a *single* user. The problem is that the gnome panel is trying its best to keep all instances connected: the geometry of one session leaks to others, and killing the panel in one session makes it want to restart itself in another.
I think it's a bug if this doesn't work; suggest to file bug and perhaps mention the bug numbers here? Thanks!
David
David Zeuthen david@fubar.dk writes:
On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 23:51 -0500, Eli Barzilay wrote:
My problem is running multiple sessions (console + VNC) from a *single* user. The problem is that the gnome panel is trying its best to keep all instances connected: the geometry of one session leaks to others, and killing the panel in one session makes it want to restart itself in another.
I think it's a bug if this doesn't work; suggest to file bug and perhaps mention the bug numbers here? Thanks!
Done: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=217730
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