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<div dir="ltr"><ol dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><li><font size="3">I did: <b><i>sudo </i></b><span><b><i>X -retro :2</i></b></span></font></li><li><font size="3"><span>It launched a GUI with crosshatched background and an "X" shaped cursor.</span></font></li><li><font size="3"><span>I Switched to available (non-blocked) TTY. Logged in to console. Did: <b><i>export DESKTOP=:2</i></b></span></font></li><li><font size="3"><span>Launched <b><i>xterm</i></b></span></font></li><li><font size="3"><span>Switched to GUI<b><i>. </i></b>It launched on TTY2. Xterm was already there.</span></font></li><li><font size="3"><span>I've moved cursor over the terminal and started trying to launch different programs: <b><i>nemo, firefox, mpv with some movie, Telegram</i></b>, etc.. The behavior was the same, as if <b><i>openbox --replace</i></b> was loaded (as I've described in original message), which means all the programs looked normal (not overexposed), except for some separate programs, like <b><i>mpv, s<span><font style="background-color: inherit;" size="3">ome pdf/fb2/epub readers, Blender, GoDot</font></span></i></b> <= these programs were still overexposed.<b><i><br clear="none"></i></b></span></font></li></ol></div>
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On Friday, July 14, 2023 at 04:27:22 AM GMT+12, Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@oracle.com> wrote:
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<div><div dir="ltr">On 7/13/23 04:31, Igor Rylov wrote:<br clear="none">> 5. I tried: */sudo /*/*X :2*/ and it loaded the graphical black screen with no<br clear="none">> mouse cursor.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">That's the current expected behavior when you run an X server and no clients.<br clear="none">If you want to see a mouse cursor, you could add the -retro flag (X -retro :2),<br clear="none">but normally the mouse cursor shows up when you start a window manager.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> 6. I've waited for over an hour, the screen blanked periodically (as a power<br clear="none">> management would do), during this time. Moving the mouse would return to the<br clear="none">> black screen. Doing */Ctrl+C/* didn't exit.<br clear="none">> 7. Swiitched to TTY5 with */Ctrl+Alt+F5/*<br clear="none">> 8. The command was in the blocked status, i.e. waiting for the */sudo X :2/*<div id="yiv5988718145yqtfd97762" class="yiv5988718145yqt0106418163"><br clear="none">> program to finish with a lot of output</div><br clear="none">> 9. Did */Ctrl+C/*<br clear="none">> 10. The */sudo X :2/* was stopped: */sudo_Xorg.2.log/* file.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">That's all as expected - if you wanted something to appear on the screen you<br clear="none">would need to run some X clients with their $DISPLAY set to :2.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">-- <br clear="none"> -Alan Coopersmith- <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:alan.coopersmith@oracle.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:alan.coopersmith@oracle.com">alan.coopersmith@oracle.com</a><br clear="none"> Oracle Solaris Engineering - <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris">https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris</a><div id="yiv5988718145yqtfd03279" class="yiv5988718145yqt0106418163"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div></div></div>
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