On 2020-05-31 16:52, brendan.h...@gmail.com wrote: > On Friday, May 29, 2020 at 6:15:31 AM UTC-4, donoban wrote: > > On 2020-05-29 02:34, brend...@gmail.com wrote: > > Can Qubes support multiple X sessions in dom0? > Or do you mean multiple X sessions with the same user? > > > Yes, exactly. > > On Friday, May 29, 2020 at 6:23:19 AM UTC-4, Frédéric Pierret wrote: > > On 2020-05-29 02:34, brend...@gmail.com wrote: > > Can Qubes support multiple X sessions in dom0? > I guess you want to see VMs in separate X sessions. Without speaking of > user management, yes it can but currently gui-daemon is running on DISPLAY=:0 > waiting for all VM start/shutdown and starting a proper server for them. In > your case of having multiple DISPLAY, that would mean to adapt the automatic > start of each deamon per VM. > > I would say, wait or try the (undocumented) GuiVM implementation in R4.1, > that would ease such use-case/management.. > > > That sounds reasonable. As it is, without further adjustment, I cannot get a > second X server to start up correctly under 4.0. > > I'm using window manager workspaces now to mentally separate out different > work-streams across a dozen running VMs sometimes. > > However, it might be nicer to have a stronger organizational (and mental) > partition and multiple X servers with the UI of running VMs associated with > different X servers would be nice. > > Perhaps multiple GUIVMs could serve that purpose?
Yes it's the idea. The last remaining organizational thing would be how to display those multiple desktops/GuiVMs. That could still be separate DISPLAY or separate workspaces (shortcuts management difficulties probably). Currently we have dom0 the "root" display, showing one fullscreen GuiVM (due to emulated GPU pass-through). But, I don't see any obstacle at dom0 boot, to start multiple Xsessions where you run manually gui-daemon associated to specific GuiVM. In the future, this setup would be initialized into the GuiVM itself with GPU passthrough. If you run into this work, I could help you for support. Best, Frédéric -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/bd752014-29d3-b555-cca9-189e6990fcd3%40qubes-os.org.
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