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IVaN4B

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Registered: 2015-09-16

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GNOME 3 Why I have 2 gnome-shell and 2 Xorg screens opened

Here's the screenshot of buggy new system-monitor (http://i.imgur.com/3ktmRwg.png)

Why does GDM in Arch Linux keeps running another useless screen with login prompt? I have this problem since the installation, how can I get rid of this? Also, how can I set gdm to open screen on VT7?
Thanks.

hussam

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Re: GNOME 3 Why I have 2 gnome-shell and 2 Xorg screens opened

It is apparently by design according to this gnome bug https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=747339

IVaN4B

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Re: GNOME 3 Why I have 2 gnome-shell and 2 Xorg screens opened

I see, but why this isn't occurring on Debian?

Ropid

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Re: GNOME 3 Why I have 2 gnome-shell and 2 Xorg screens opened

In your Debian setup, you perhaps don't use GDM as the display-manager or you don't use one of the newer versions of Gnome.

mwillems

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Re: GNOME 3 Why I have 2 gnome-shell and 2 Xorg screens opened

If you're running Debian stable, you're still running Gnome 3.14; this issue was introduced in Gnome 3.16. Hopefully it will be fixed by Gnome 3.20 as it eats memory like crazy and is causing all kinds of downstream mischief, see e.g. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=749208