On 2023-05-15 23:02, Michael Fischer wrote:
On Mon, May 15, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
Check the RootMenu. The website says restart/quit FVWM is in there, so switch user should probably be there as well.
Nope, its not.
1. XTerm 2. Issue fvwm commands D. Desktop Menu > R. Restart fvwm X. Exit fvwm
(that's the "builtin menu") Well, it has to be in there somewhere, or it is rather useless as a DM in a multi-user graphical environment. What happens if you select "Restart fvwm"?
Different user, yes. Different terminal, not the way you are thinking about it. You have no choice which terminal will be used. A new terminal will be created (VT8), and the login manager will be started in that. This session is run as a new session, all handled by the system, so unless you log in as the same user, they will run completely independently of each other.
Yeah, I was starting to wonder if I needed to use the "next VT" (aka VT8). Except that if I CTRL-ALT-8, it doesn't have either a displaymanager interface, nor a login prompt.
VT8 does not exist until it is created specifically to run a second graphical environment. For that matter, VT7 does not exist either, if you are running runlevel 3. If you switch/boot into runlevel 5, systemd creates a new terminal, VT7, then loads the login manager into that terminal.