Why does `startx /usr/bin/unity` not load my desktop settings?
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I am trying to open a second X session with unity on display :1.
For this to achieve I open another terminal (e.g. tty 6) with Ctrl + Alt +6 and login as the user whose desktop session I want to start. When I start the X session with unity as a client on display :1, unity loads but does not adhere to my desktop settings.
This is how I start the session:
$ startx /usr/bin/unity -- :1
This does not work properly:
- Startup applications don't start.
- dconf settings are not read (e.g.
org.gnome.desktop.interface.text-scaling-factor) - The language of the desktop is not correct (This user's desktop should be English while my main user has a German desktop).
- ... maybe other stuff I did not notice.
I also tried to start X with
$ startx -- :1
This shows the correct desktop wallpaper but does not show anything else (no xterm, no panels, no dash, ...). But Ctrl + Alt +T opens a decorated terminal and I can start unity. That loads unity with almost everything I need. But the language still is German.
I also tried appending unity to ~/.xinitrc but that did not change anything.
Can someone point out my mistakes? An optimal solution for me would be to being able to start a second unity session with startx -- :1.
unity xorg settings tty
asked Jul 14 '13 at 19:45
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I am trying to open a second X session with unity on display :1.
For this to achieve I open another terminal (e.g. tty 6) with Ctrl + Alt +6 and login as the user whose desktop session I want to start. When I start the X session with unity as a client on display :1, unity loads but does not adhere to my desktop settings.
This is how I start the session:
$ startx /usr/bin/unity -- :1
This does not work properly:
- Startup applications don't start.
- dconf settings are not read (e.g.
org.gnome.desktop.interface.text-scaling-factor) - The language of the desktop is not correct (This user's desktop should be English while my main user has a German desktop).
- ... maybe other stuff I did not notice.
I also tried to start X with
$ startx -- :1
This shows the correct desktop wallpaper but does not show anything else (no xterm, no panels, no dash, ...). But Ctrl + Alt +T opens a decorated terminal and I can start unity. That loads unity with almost everything I need. But the language still is German.
I also tried appending unity to ~/.xinitrc but that did not change anything.
Can someone point out my mistakes? An optimal solution for me would be to being able to start a second unity session with startx -- :1.
unity xorg settings tty
asked Jul 14 '13 at 19:45
justfortherec
284414
Oh. By accident I just stumbled upon the solution for my problem: Obviously I just need to use the user switcher in the panel and lightdm opens the session of the second user on display :1. This does not answer my questions but solves my problem.
– justfortherec
Jul 14 '13 at 19:50
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I am trying to open a second X session with unity on display :1.
For this to achieve I open another terminal (e.g. tty 6) with Ctrl + Alt +6 and login as the user whose desktop session I want to start. When I start the X session with unity as a client on display :1, unity loads but does not adhere to my desktop settings.
This is how I start the session:
$ startx /usr/bin/unity -- :1
This does not work properly:
- Startup applications don't start.
- dconf settings are not read (e.g.
org.gnome.desktop.interface.text-scaling-factor) - The language of the desktop is not correct (This user's desktop should be English while my main user has a German desktop).
- ... maybe other stuff I did not notice.
I also tried to start X with
$ startx -- :1
This shows the correct desktop wallpaper but does not show anything else (no xterm, no panels, no dash, ...). But Ctrl + Alt +T opens a decorated terminal and I can start unity. That loads unity with almost everything I need. But the language still is German.
I also tried appending unity to ~/.xinitrc but that did not change anything.
Can someone point out my mistakes? An optimal solution for me would be to being able to start a second unity session with startx -- :1.
unity xorg settings tty
asked Jul 14 '13 at 19:45
justfortherec
284414
I am trying to open a second X session with unity on display :1.
For this to achieve I open another terminal (e.g. tty 6) with Ctrl + Alt +6 and login as the user whose desktop session I want to start. When I start the X session with unity as a client on display :1, unity loads but does not adhere to my desktop settings.
This is how I start the session:
$ startx /usr/bin/unity -- :1
This does not work properly:
- Startup applications don't start.
- dconf settings are not read (e.g.
org.gnome.desktop.interface.text-scaling-factor) - The language of the desktop is not correct (This user's desktop should be English while my main user has a German desktop).
- ... maybe other stuff I did not notice.
I also tried to start X with
$ startx -- :1
This shows the correct desktop wallpaper but does not show anything else (no xterm, no panels, no dash, ...). But Ctrl + Alt +T opens a decorated terminal and I can start unity. That loads unity with almost everything I need. But the language still is German.
I also tried appending unity to ~/.xinitrc but that did not change anything.
Can someone point out my mistakes? An optimal solution for me would be to being able to start a second unity session with startx -- :1.
unity xorg settings tty
unity xorg settings tty
asked Jul 14 '13 at 19:45
justfortherec
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asked Jul 14 '13 at 19:45
justfortherec
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asked Jul 14 '13 at 19:45
justfortherec
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asked Jul 14 '13 at 19:45
justfortherec
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asked Jul 14 '13 at 19:45
justfortherec
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Oh. By accident I just stumbled upon the solution for my problem: Obviously I just need to use the user switcher in the panel and lightdm opens the session of the second user on display :1. This does not answer my questions but solves my problem.
– justfortherec
Jul 14 '13 at 19:50
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Oh. By accident I just stumbled upon the solution for my problem: Obviously I just need to use the user switcher in the panel and lightdm opens the session of the second user on display :1. This does not answer my questions but solves my problem.
– justfortherec
Jul 14 '13 at 19:50
Oh. By accident I just stumbled upon the solution for my problem: Obviously I just need to use the user switcher in the panel and lightdm opens the session of the second user on display :1. This does not answer my questions but solves my problem.
– justfortherec
Jul 14 '13 at 19:50
Oh. By accident I just stumbled upon the solution for my problem: Obviously I just need to use the user switcher in the panel and lightdm opens the session of the second user on display :1. This does not answer my questions but solves my problem.
– justfortherec
Jul 14 '13 at 19:50
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If you want to manually start an xsession like that, you should rather do something like gnome-session --session=ubuntu. gnome-session will load required components such as gnome-settings-daemon which in turn will configure your stuff.
Sessions are stored in /usr/share/gnome-session/sessions/. You'll see things like "gnome.session" and "ubuntu.session". You use the file name without the ".session" extension in the --session parameter.
Likewise, if you want to properly shut down your desktop session, you can kill that instance of gnome-session.
answered Jul 14 '13 at 22:32
Jo-Erlend Schinstad
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Thanks. Where would I do that? In the tty? Can I pass an argument which display should be used? I can't find how to do that. If I runstartx -- :1first, open a terminal and startgnome-session --session=ubuntuI get an error message: "Failed to aquire org.gnome.SessionManager".
– justfortherec
Jul 15 '13 at 6:52
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I'm using following method for tty:
cp ~/.xinitrc ~/.xinitrc.old # if they exist
echo "exec unity" > ~/.xinitrc # or "exec gnome-session --session=ubuntu"
sudo startx -- :1
And i have full-featured session Desktop Environment.
BUT, if you go to another tty, session will be broken.
answered Aug 7 '15 at 11:21
Alexander
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If you want to manually start an xsession like that, you should rather do something like gnome-session --session=ubuntu. gnome-session will load required components such as gnome-settings-daemon which in turn will configure your stuff.
Sessions are stored in /usr/share/gnome-session/sessions/. You'll see things like "gnome.session" and "ubuntu.session". You use the file name without the ".session" extension in the --session parameter.
Likewise, if you want to properly shut down your desktop session, you can kill that instance of gnome-session.
answered Jul 14 '13 at 22:32
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Thanks. Where would I do that? In the tty? Can I pass an argument which display should be used? I can't find how to do that. If I runstartx -- :1first, open a terminal and startgnome-session --session=ubuntuI get an error message: "Failed to aquire org.gnome.SessionManager".
– justfortherec
Jul 15 '13 at 6:52
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If you want to manually start an xsession like that, you should rather do something like gnome-session --session=ubuntu. gnome-session will load required components such as gnome-settings-daemon which in turn will configure your stuff.
Sessions are stored in /usr/share/gnome-session/sessions/. You'll see things like "gnome.session" and "ubuntu.session". You use the file name without the ".session" extension in the --session parameter.
Likewise, if you want to properly shut down your desktop session, you can kill that instance of gnome-session.
answered Jul 14 '13 at 22:32
Jo-Erlend Schinstad
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Thanks. Where would I do that? In the tty? Can I pass an argument which display should be used? I can't find how to do that. If I runstartx -- :1first, open a terminal and startgnome-session --session=ubuntuI get an error message: "Failed to aquire org.gnome.SessionManager".
– justfortherec
Jul 15 '13 at 6:52
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If you want to manually start an xsession like that, you should rather do something like gnome-session --session=ubuntu. gnome-session will load required components such as gnome-settings-daemon which in turn will configure your stuff.
Sessions are stored in /usr/share/gnome-session/sessions/. You'll see things like "gnome.session" and "ubuntu.session". You use the file name without the ".session" extension in the --session parameter.
Likewise, if you want to properly shut down your desktop session, you can kill that instance of gnome-session.
answered Jul 14 '13 at 22:32
Jo-Erlend Schinstad
26.3k556108
If you want to manually start an xsession like that, you should rather do something like gnome-session --session=ubuntu. gnome-session will load required components such as gnome-settings-daemon which in turn will configure your stuff.
Sessions are stored in /usr/share/gnome-session/sessions/. You'll see things like "gnome.session" and "ubuntu.session". You use the file name without the ".session" extension in the --session parameter.
Likewise, if you want to properly shut down your desktop session, you can kill that instance of gnome-session.
answered Jul 14 '13 at 22:32
Jo-Erlend Schinstad
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Thanks. Where would I do that? In the tty? Can I pass an argument which display should be used? I can't find how to do that. If I runstartx -- :1first, open a terminal and startgnome-session --session=ubuntuI get an error message: "Failed to aquire org.gnome.SessionManager".
– justfortherec
Jul 15 '13 at 6:52
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Thanks. Where would I do that? In the tty? Can I pass an argument which display should be used? I can't find how to do that. If I runstartx -- :1first, open a terminal and startgnome-session --session=ubuntuI get an error message: "Failed to aquire org.gnome.SessionManager".
– justfortherec
Jul 15 '13 at 6:52
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Thanks. Where would I do that? In the tty? Can I pass an argument which display should be used? I can't find how to do that. If I run
startx -- :1 first, open a terminal and start gnome-session --session=ubuntu I get an error message: "Failed to aquire org.gnome.SessionManager".– justfortherec
Jul 15 '13 at 6:52
Thanks. Where would I do that? In the tty? Can I pass an argument which display should be used? I can't find how to do that. If I run
startx -- :1 first, open a terminal and start gnome-session --session=ubuntu I get an error message: "Failed to aquire org.gnome.SessionManager".– justfortherec
Jul 15 '13 at 6:52
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I'm using following method for tty:
cp ~/.xinitrc ~/.xinitrc.old # if they exist
echo "exec unity" > ~/.xinitrc # or "exec gnome-session --session=ubuntu"
sudo startx -- :1
And i have full-featured session Desktop Environment.
BUT, if you go to another tty, session will be broken.
answered Aug 7 '15 at 11:21
Alexander
113
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I'm using following method for tty:
cp ~/.xinitrc ~/.xinitrc.old # if they exist
echo "exec unity" > ~/.xinitrc # or "exec gnome-session --session=ubuntu"
sudo startx -- :1
And i have full-featured session Desktop Environment.
BUT, if you go to another tty, session will be broken.
answered Aug 7 '15 at 11:21
Alexander
113
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up vote
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up vote
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I'm using following method for tty:
cp ~/.xinitrc ~/.xinitrc.old # if they exist
echo "exec unity" > ~/.xinitrc # or "exec gnome-session --session=ubuntu"
sudo startx -- :1
And i have full-featured session Desktop Environment.
BUT, if you go to another tty, session will be broken.
answered Aug 7 '15 at 11:21
Alexander
113
I'm using following method for tty:
cp ~/.xinitrc ~/.xinitrc.old # if they exist
echo "exec unity" > ~/.xinitrc # or "exec gnome-session --session=ubuntu"
sudo startx -- :1
And i have full-featured session Desktop Environment.
BUT, if you go to another tty, session will be broken.
answered Aug 7 '15 at 11:21
Alexander
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answered Aug 7 '15 at 11:21
Alexander
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answered Aug 7 '15 at 11:21
Alexander
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Oh. By accident I just stumbled upon the solution for my problem: Obviously I just need to use the user switcher in the panel and lightdm opens the session of the second user on display :1. This does not answer my questions but solves my problem.
– justfortherec
Jul 14 '13 at 19:50