Re: [Thinstation-general] Multiple Sessions Howto ?

[Dave B. <bo...@cn...>]

I ended up following instructions for xdesktop-kiosk, and that works
sufficiently well, I believe.

On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 09:32:21PM +0000, Don Cupp wrote:
>    As I understand it, that functionality was always a little quirky, and
>    some would say that it just didn't work, while others would say it had
>    a lot of annoyances.
>    I was oblivious to it, as I have never had any need to run more than 1
>    Xserver at a time. Xsessions start at tty5, as tty1 is for the console,
>    2 & 3 are for text sessions, 4 is unused but F keys are in groups of
>    four. Also once upon a time, X would lock if you put it on the same tty
>    as the console, maybe not true anymore, but I still like to be able to
>    switch between the console and X.
>    Sessions 0+ are serial because one often needs to run more than one
>    application on a tty, for example the window manager needs to run on
>    the same tty as the browser or remote app that it manages. Making them
>    parallel is not impossible, but very complicated for such a rare
>    corner-case.
>    On Wednesday, November 30, 2016 9:00 AM, Dave Botsch
>    <bo...@cn...> wrote:
>    I'm trying to figure out how to have multiple session types from which
>    a
>    user can choose, either via a menu or via ctrl-alt-Fx .
>    It seems that there used to be a replimenu, but posts indicate that's
>    broken.
>    >From everything else I'm reading, I should be able to simply do:
>    SESSION_0_configs
>    SESSION_1_configs
>    SESSION_2_configs
>    and then have 3 sessions, the first on ctrl-alt-F3 and up.
>    But that's not the case.
>    The "first" session is always on F5 (even if I only have session 0
>    configured).
>    And I only get one session, which seems to be the last (SESSION_2) ...
>    nothing on any of the other terminals.
>    It looks like it may have started each app on the same X display and on
>    top of each other instead of on separate terminals.
>    In thinstation.conf.buildtime, I have:
>    SESSION_0_TYPE=thinlinc
>    SESSION_0_THINLINC_SERVER=****
>    SESSION_0_THINLINC_OPTIONS="-u user -c -l server"
>    SESSION_0_THINLINC_CONFIG_SOUND_ENABLED=1
>    SESSION_0_THINLINC_CONFIG_NFS_SERVER_ENABLED=1
>    SESSION_0_THINLINC_CONFIG_NFS_ROOT_WARNING=0
>    SESSION_0_THINLINC_CONFIG_NFS_EXPORTS=/mnt/usbdevice,rw
>    RECONNECT_PROMPT=AUTO10
>    SESSION_0_AUTOSTART=on
>    and then in thinstation.conf.network:
>    SESSION_1_AUTOSTART=on
>    SESSION_2_AUTOSTART=on
>    SESSION_0_TITLE="CNF Thin"
>    SESSION_1_TITLE="Desktop Everywhere"
>    SESSION_2_TITLE="Desktop Everywhere - Secure"
>    SESSION_1_TYPE=vmview
>    SESSION_1_VMVIEW_SERVERURL=****
>    SESSION_1_VMVIEW_DOMAINNAME=CORNELL
>    SESSION_1_VMVIEW_FULLSCREEN=true
>    SESSION_2_TYPE=vmview
>    SESSION_2_VMVIEW_SERVERURL=****
>    SESSION_2_VMVIEW_DOMAINNAME=CORNELL
>    SESSION_2_VMVIEW_FULLSCREEN=true
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