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hatuey

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Registered: 2013-07-07

Posts: 6

startx from tmux

Hello!

I'd like to start a tmux session on every login, so I put what the wiki suggests in my .zshrc and it works as aspected.
But everytime I try to startx as normal user from there, Xorg fails with this output:

Fatal server error:
(EE) xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open /dev/tty0 (No such file or directory)

My X starts normally from outside of tmux (even I simply detach the session and keep the server running in the background) and also from the inside if I startx as root with sudo.

Thanks in advance.

loafer

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Registered: 2009-04-14

Posts: 1,772

Re: startx from tmux

What did you actually put in your .zshrc?  You will need to post it.

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Head_on_a_Stick

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Registered: 2014-02-20

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Re: startx from tmux

startx as root with sudo.

Don't do that!

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hatuey

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Registered: 2013-07-07

Posts: 6

Re: startx from tmux

What did you actually put in your .zshrc?  You will need to post it.

[[ $- != *i* ]] && return
[[ -z "$TMUX" ]] && exec tmux attach

But I don't think it really matters, since if I remove it and start tmux manually (and even if I remove .tmux.conf) it behaves just the same.

hatuey

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Registered: 2013-07-07

Posts: 6

Re: startx from tmux

startx as root with sudo.

Don't do that!

Of course I don't. I just did it once to try and figure out what the problem is.

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: startx from tmux

I start X on some ttys and have tmux running on others.