[SOLVED] XFCE screens

business_kid · 09-19-2023, 08:48 AM

I have this 20230910 RazPi 4 image working now. I updated it with Current so it has kde, not that I'm using kde. There is one small niggle. On all previous images, root had 2 screens in X, which were accessed inside X by Ctrl_F1 & Ctrl_F2. Users, otoh had 4 screens accessible by Ctrl_F1-Ctrl_F4.

On this one, the user only has 2 screens. I'm very fond of the 4 screens. I did a websearch and found an answer on stackexchange, but the files on the sdcard are quite different to what is described in the answer.

What sets the number of screens now?

camorri · 09-19-2023, 10:31 AM

Have a look at /etc/inittab. The last 4 on my system are commented out. This is on 15 on my Pi 3.

Code:

# These are the standard console login getties in multiuser mode:
c1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty --noclear 38400 tty1 linux
c2:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty2 linux
#c3:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty3 linux
#c4:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty4 linux
#c5:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty5 linux
#c6:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty6 linux

After removing the # sign, not sure if you have to boot or not.

business_kid · 09-19-2023, 11:20 AM

Thanks for the reply.

Console logins are fine. They're accessible with Alt_F1-Alt_F6.

Most window managers have one screen where you minimize applications, but xfce has 4, which you access with Ctrl_F1-Ctrl_F4. Of those, I only have 2:-(. That was my problem.

As this is an update it resided on an sdcard of my RazPi 4. I bit the bullet and updated my SSD. I purposely left out the /etc/ directory with all the configuration stuff. I have a working backup of the SSD if I need it. This solved the issue

. I also kept the /home/myuser directory unchanged.

There's all these little tweaks in both places, and I put them in, like them, but forget completely what I did. Slackware is sufficiently stable, and I'm such a creature of habit that I rarely have to bother updating the configs.