FS#46478 - [xorg-server] Cannot open graphical program from the TTY anymore
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Opened by Mattias Andrée (maandree) - Tuesday, 29 September 2015, 15:52 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Thursday, 28 July 2016, 09:12 GMT
Opened by Mattias Andrée (maandree) - Tuesday, 29 September 2015, 15:52 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Thursday, 28 July 2016, 09:12 GMT
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Details
It is no longer possible to start an X program from
the TTY by setting $DISPLAY or using -display. For example. Lets say I started X from VT 1 and it opened as DISPLAY=:0 on VT 2. I cannot open, for example xterm, from VT 2 by running something like env DISPLAY=:0 xterm env DISPLAY=:0.0 xterm xterm -display :0 or xterm -display :0.0 Whenever I try to open a program this way, the program says "No protocol specified," xterm also says that it cannot open the specified display. This issue has existed for a few months. (I just have not be able to report it because I have not been able to log in because of a password bug on bugs.archlinux.org.) |
This task depends upon
If I use xorg-server from the repository, I cannot start X at all.
If I compile it myself I can start it, and it is still a problem.
And even worse, I only have one instance of X, if I start a second
instance it fails and the first instance loses its display but not
keyboard (both X and the TTY has access to the keyboard.)